Péquisten.adj.
/peɪˈkiːst/, U.S. /ˌpeɪˈkist/, Canadian English /ˌpeiˈkiːst/ Canadian Politics.
A. n.
A member of the Parti Québécois.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > politics > other national politics > [noun] > Canadian politics > specific party > member or adherent of
Liberal-Conservative1834
rouge1854
Socred1955
New Democrat1961
Créditiste1962
New Dem1962
Péquiste1970
1970 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 27 Apr. 4 In the cities and towns..the big gainers are the Pequistes.
1980 Gazette (Montreal) 18 Feb. 1 For the next 15 or 16 weeks, let us try..to forget that we are Pequistes.
1996 Polit. Sci. & Politics 29 678/2 The Péquistes tried to defuse the ‘profitable federalism’ arguments.
B. adj.
Also with lower-case initial. Of or relating to the Parti Québécois or its members.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > politics > other national politics > [adjective] > specific Canadian party
Liberal-Conservative1835
bleu1900
Créditiste1963
Péquiste1976
1976 Toronto Star 11 Dec. f5/6 Pequiste Payette, having just watched a small revolution that she helped make, must have had something interesting to say.
1982 Economist (Nexis) 7 Aug. 17 A renewed campaign..has little appeal for people whose concern is about jobs, taxes,..and government spending, on all of which the Pequiste record is poor.
1994 Maclean's 13 June 23/1 Bouchard's Péquiste sympathies forced him out of his Chicoutimi law firm.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.adj.1970