poissarde
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editpoissarde (plural poissardes)
- (now historical) A fishwife, especially in France; specifically, any of the Parisian fishwives or market-women who led riots during the French Revolution. [from 18th c.]
- 1789, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 295:
- [T]he destruction of the most ancient Empires on record has nothing more wonderful, nor of more sounding improbability, than the demolition of this Great Nation […] Even the Amazons were but the poissardes of the Day […].
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edit- IPA(key): /pwa.saʁd/
Audio: (file) - Homophone: poissardes
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