jacquerie
/ˈdʒeɪk(ə)ri
/noun
A communal uprising or revolt.Threatened by plots, riots, jacquerie, and pressure from the newly emancipated crowds and journalists of Paris, the Assembly quickly moved far beyond the wishes of the people as expressed in the cahiers....
- Peasant risings had erupted in the south and east of Russia, for centuries the regions from which jacqueries had sprung.
- The jacqueries, the peasants’ war, Stenka Razin, Pugachev, also Milan, Trieste, Lyon in 183o, and so forth-those were the great insurrections.
Origin
Early 16th century (referring to the 1357 peasants' revolt against the nobles in northern France): from Old French, literally 'villeins', from Jacques, a given name used in the sense 'peasant'.
Rhymes
- unmarketed
- unmarred
- unmarriable
- unmarriage
- unmarriageable
- non-enzymatic
- non-enzymic
- none other than
- non-equilibrium
- non-erotic
- nones
- none-so-pretty
- non esse
- non-essence
- non-essential
- non est
- non est factum
- non est inventus
- nonesuch
- Nonesuch chest
- Nonesuch ornament
- nonet
- none the less
- nonetheless
- none the worse for