[1790–1800; ‹ F: lit., a participant in the Fronde (the rebellion against royal authorityduring the minority of Louis XIV), equiv. to Fronde + -eur -eur]This word is first recorded in the period 1790–1800. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: cannibalism, cutout, infiltration, silhouette, stereotype-eur is a suffix occurring in loanwords from French, usually agent nouns formed from verbs(entrepreneur; voyeur), less commonly adjectives (agent provocateur)