Gueuxn.
Historical.
With plural agreement. A name first given in contempt to the Protestant nobles who opposed Margaret of Parma, Regent of the Netherlands, and afterwards adopted by various bodies of Dutch and Flemish partisans in the wars with the Spanish in the 16th cent.
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Gueux1624
cardinalist1650
stadholderian1789
Orangist1848
1624 W. Bedell Copies Certaine Lett. x. 133 Yet these people were neither Geuses nor Caluinists.
1665 Surv. Affaires Netherlands Those of Flanders about Liberty of Religion, carried on in a most Tumultuous and Riotous manner, by a Rabble of Geux or Beggars, as my Lord Barlement called them.
1706 in Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.)
1735 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 7) Gheus.
1749 T. Nugent Grand Tour I. 134 Soon after the water-gueux, or malecontents under the earl of March took possession of the Briel.
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