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‖ poissarde|pwasard|
[F., a low foul-mouthed woman, a market-woman, fem. of obs. poissard pickpocket, rogue, f. poix pitch + -ard, because things ‘stick to his fingers’; also a fishwife (by association with poisson fish).]
A French-woman of the lowest class, esp. one of the Parisian market-women, who led riots during the first revolution.
1790H. Walpole Let. to Miss Berry 3 July, The poissardes huzzaed them. 1797Canning, etc. in Anti-Jacobin No. 4 (1799) 137 While her sportive Poissardes with light footsteps are seen To dance in a ring round the gay Guillotine. 1833H. Martineau Fr. Wines & Pol. vii. 109 The shrill voiced poissardes were broiling their rations, or heating their strong liquors. 1848A. Fonblanque in Life & Labours ii. (1874) 223 The women.., animated with the spirit of the poissardes of '93.
b. A French fishwife.
1818Sporting Mag. II. 161 The bathing women, the poissardes of the coast, in their blue flannel dresses. 1860Ruskin Mod. Paint. V. ix. ix. 294 A friendly turn of mind towards herring fishing, whaling, Calais poissardes and many other of our choicest subjects in after life. |