• (n.) A popular or Red Rebublican song and dance, of the time of the first French Revolution. • (n.) A bombastic report from the French armies.
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originally, a Piedmontese peasant costume (from the Italian town of Carmagnola) that was well known in the south of France and brought to Paris by ... [1 related articles]
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Wild song and dance that accompanied the peasant costume of the same name, from Piedmont and the Midi, worn by southern French revolutionaries to Paris in 1793. The song and dance were very popular...
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Car`ma`gnole' noun [ French]
1. A popular or Red Rebublican song and dance, of the time of the first French Revolution. « They danced and yelled the
carmagnole .
Compton Reade. »
2. A bombastic report from the French armies.
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The carmagnole was a short jacket derived from workmen's jackets worn in Carmagnola in Italy and adopted by the 'sans clottes' of the French Revolution in 1792.
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