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‖ carmagnole|karmaɲɔl|
[Fr. carmagnole a kind of dress much worn in France during the Revolution of 1789; also in senses given below.]
1. Name of a lively song and dance, popular among the French revolutionists in 1793.
1827Scott Napoleon Prose Wks. 1835 II. 99 note. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. (1857) II. ii. v. xi. 82 Duke Brunswick is not dancing carmagnoles, but has his drill-sergeants ready. 1871Farrar Witn. Hist. v. 189 That liberty which has for her lullaby the carmagnole.
2. A nickname for a soldier in the French revolutionary army; applied by Burns to the devil, as the author of mischief or ruin.
1796Burns Poem on Life, That curst carmagnole, auld Satan. 1823Galt Entail III. xii. 115 Switching away the heads of the thistles..as if they had been Parisian carmagnols.
3. The bombastic style adopted in reporting the successes of the French revolutionary army.
1860Times 16 Apr. 10/2 A fair specimen of the style called the Carmagnole, so much cultivated by the newspaper and pamphlet writers of the first Revolution. |