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English
Etymology
From French groupuscule.
Pronunciation
Noun
groupuscule (plural groupuscules)
- A small political group, especially of an extremist faction.
2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 87:Thus, by the time that I enrolled as an “undergraduate” at Balliol College, Oxford, I was already a militant “student” member of the International Socialist groupuscule, as such factions were to become known after the momentously imminent events in France.
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French
Etymology
From groupe + -cule, modeled after minuscule.
Pronunciation
Noun
groupuscule m (plural groupuscules)
- (derogatory) groupuscule (small political group)
- un groupuscule d’extrême droite ― a small far-right group
2019 March 15, Timothée Boutry, “Attentat de Christchurch : «Une montée de la violence d’extrême droite»”, in Le Parisien:En France, même s’il n’est pas passé à l’action, on peut citer le groupuscule AFO (action des forces opérationnelles) démantelé cet été qui projetait de s’en prendre à des musulmans.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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