Camisard

[kam-uh-zahrd, kam-uh-zahrd, ka-mee-zar]

noun

1. any French Protestant, living in the region of the Cévennes Mountains, who carried on a revolt against Louis XIV in the early part of the 18th century.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Camisard¹

1695–1705; < French, equivalent to camis- (< Provençal camisa shirt; chemise ) + -ard -ard

Example Sentences

Le Musée du Désert, in the farmhouse birthplace of Camisard leader Roland, in the village of Mialet, is as fascinating as the museum in a former silk mill in nearby Saint-Jean-du-Gard, homage to an industry killed off not by disease but by artificial textiles in the 1950s.

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With nothing of the Camisard about him, he invincibly recalls one of those sunny, self-possessed sons of Provence.

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The Inspired Societies in Wetterau.—After the unfortunate issue of the Camisard War in a.d.

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At the head of the Camisard army was a young peasant, Jean Cavalier, who by his energetic and skilful conduct of the campaign astonished the world.

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He organized the Camisard forces and maintained the most severe discipline.

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