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English
Etymology
French
Noun
cagoulard (plural cagoulards)
- (historical) A member of La Cagoule; a far-right-wing revolutionary or activist.
2002, K. Moure, Martin S. Alexander, Crisis and Renewal in France: 1918-1962, page 94:Moreover, Henry Charbonneau, a cagoulard, portrayed Henri Martin, head of the Cagoule's "intelligence" section in November 1937, as "an incorrigible mythomane," and Deloncle as a devotee of "intelligence."
2003, Ronald Tiersky, François Mitterrand: A Very French President:Arrighi replied by exhuming an old accusation that in the 1930s as a teenager Mitterrand had been a cagoulard, a member of the extreme-rightist, violent pro-fascist organization known as La Cagoule, "the Cowl."
French
Etymology
From cagoule + -ard.
Pronunciation
Noun
cagoulard m (plural cagoulards, feminine cagoularde)
- (historical) cagoulard
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