| 释义 |
‖ pied noir|pje nwar|
Pl. pieds noirs.
[Fr., = black foot.]
A name given to people of French origin living in Algeria during French rule, and to those who returned to Europe after the granting of independence to Algeria in 1962.
The name was applied formerly to Algerian stokers who worked bare-footed on French cargo-boats, and by extension, to Algerians generally.
1961Times 6 May 9/6 They are the pieds noirs, fiercely proud of this pejorative nickname given them by the metropolitan French. 1962Economist 28 Apr. 344/3 Returned conscripts [from Algeria] and vacationing pieds noirs..played an important part in informing the public. 1963Times Lit. Suppl. 31 May 384/3 These two large monographs are devoted to painters—both dead—..the one Flemish, the other a pied noir from Constantine. 1965Economist 27 Mar. 1365/1 Marseilles, a sprawling city with an ethnically mixed-up population—Greek, Armenian, Italian, Corsican, and now pied-noir from North Africa—has a certain charm. 1969Listener 27 Mar. 417/2 M. Fabre was an elderly colon, one of the original French families in Algeria—a pied noir, as they like to be called. 1972D. Lees Zodiac 9 This one..was called Daria-Daria Massenet, which made her a Pied Noir. 1977Time 21 Nov. 12/1 Unlike the white settlers of Rhodesia or the French pieds-noirs of Algeria, the Afrikaners have no ties to a European motherland. |