单词 | carmagnole |
释义 | carmagnolen. 1. Name of a lively song and dance, popular among the French revolutionists in 1793. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > lively dances > [noun] > others hove-dance1390 tricotee1659 saltarello1724 écossaise1806 fling1806 carmagnole1827 gallopade1831 gallopading1833 polka1837 redowa1843 chicken dance1845 polking1845 schottische1849 Highland or Balmoral Schottische1882 kinkajou1927 knees up, Mother Brown1939 chicken1957 1827 W. Scott Life Napoleon II. iii. 64 The French general had more confidence in the Carmagnole levies, from which his military genius derived valuable support. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. v. xi. 348 Duke Brunswick is not dancing carmagnoles, but has his drill serjeants busy. 1871 F. W. Farrar Witness of 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. ΚΠ a1796 R. Burns Poem & Songs (1968) II. 809 That curst carmagnole, auld Satan. 1823 J. Galt 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. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [noun] > inflated or bombastic style > bombast thundering1564 bombast1589 fustiana1593 taratantara1599 bombard-phrasea1637 heroics1638 bombacea1661 rant1662 Lexiphanicism1767 streperosity1772 puff1821 taffeta1821 polyphloisboioism1823 flabbergast1831 highfalutin1847 highfalutination1858 carmagnole1860 Barnumism1862 ballyhoo1901 1860 Times 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.a1796 |
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