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单词 poissarde
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poissarden.

Brit. /ˈpwasɑːd/, /ˈpwɑːsɑːd/, U.S. /pwɑˈsɑrd/
Forms: 1700s poissard, 1700s– poissarde.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French poissarde.
Etymology: < French poissarde market woman, fishwife (1640), feminine of †poissard thief (1531 in Middle French) < poix pitch ( < classical Latin pic- , pix pitch n.1) + -ard -ard suffix, so called because things ‘stick to their fingers’; in sense ‘fishwife’ by a perceived folk-etymological connection with French poisson fish.
Now historical.
1. Any of the Parisian market women who led riots during the French Revolution.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > the lowest class > [noun] > person of the lowest class > woman
customer1583
bulker1673
bunter1706
poissarde1791
1791 ‘P. Pindar' Magpie & Robin Red-breast in Remonstrance 22 A Magpie, in the spirit of romance, Much like the fam'd Reformers now of France, Flew from the dwelling of an old Poissarde.
1797 Anti-Jacobin 4 Dec. 31/2 While her sportive Poissardes with light footsteps are seen To dance in a ring round the gay Guillotine.
1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits x. 166 They have no revolutions; no horse-guards dictating to the crown; no Parisian poissardes and barricades; no mob.
1887 Atlantic Monthly Sept. 297/1 Nothing was more monstrous than the poissardes of the old Revolution.
1929 New Eng. Q. 2 25 The attentions of official Paris were as offensive in their fashion as those of the poissardes.
1989 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 2 Apr. c6 From the Bastille we move to Versailles by way of the poissardes, the market women of Paris whose rich dialect and songs are savored in a brilliant piece of social history.
2. A fishwife, esp. a French one. Obsolete.
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of provisions > seller of fish or seafood > woman
fishwife1523
oyster wife1550
oyster wench1597
oyster woman1597
butt-woman1620
oyster-callet1621
poissarde1797
1797 C. Smith Elegiac Sonnets II. 44 More blest the Fisher, who undaunted braves In his small bark, the impetuous winds and waves... Pale with fears for him, some fair Poissarde, Watches his nearing boat.
1798 E. J. Eyre Misc. Poems ii. 1 Like drunken poissards they rush out to meet, Each thoughtless Tar from our northern fleet.
1818 Sporting Mag. 2 161 The bathing women, the poissardes of the coast, in their blue flannel dresses.
1860 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters V. 294 A friendly turn of mind towards herring fishing, whaling, Calais poissardes, and many other of our choicest subjects in after life.
1868 Temple Bar Aug. 68 A merry quart d'heure with..some other eminent Dublin character, the King of the Carmen, or the Queen of the Pill Lane poissardes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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