carmagnole

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English

Etymology

18th-century, borrowed from French carmagnole, named after Carmagnole, the French name of the northwestern Italian town of Carmagnola.

Pronunciation

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  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˌkɑːmənˈjəʊl/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈkɑɹmənˌjoʊl/
  • Rhymes: -əʊl
  • Hyphenation: car‧ma‧gnole

Noun

carmagnole (plural carmagnoles)

  1. (historical) A popular Red Republican song and dance, of the time of the first French Revolution.
    • 1903, John Coleman, Charles Reade As I Knew Him:
      dancing a devil's dance to the diabolical music of the carmagnole
  2. (clothing, historical) A short jacket, fashionable during the French Revolution, with short skirts, a broad collar and lapels, and several rows of buttons.
  3. (archaic) (Can we verify(+) this sense?)A bombastic report from the French armies.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “carmagnole”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

French

Etymology

Named after Carmagnole, the northwestern Italian town of Carmagnola.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kaʁ.ma.ɲɔl/
  • Rhymes: -ɔl
  • Hyphenation: car‧ma‧gnole

Noun

carmagnole f (plural carmagnoles)

  1. (historical, clothing) carmagnole (short jacket fashionable during the French Revolution)
  2. (historical) carmagnole (lively song and street dance)
  3. (archaic) an old variety of apple

Descendants

  • → Albanian: karamanjollë (“guillotine”)
  • → English: carmagnole
  • → Greek: καρμανιόλα (karmanióla, “guillotine”)

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