Camisard
/ˈkamɪsɑː
/ /ˌkamɪˈsɑː / /kamisaʀ/noun
A member of the French Protestant insurgents who rebelled against the persecution that followed the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.There are occurrences of ecstatic speech associated with the Reformation Anabaptists and in the 17th- and 18th-century French movements of Jansenism and the Camisards....
- The Gard, for example, was divided between the Protestant Cévennes, taking their character from the Camisard rebellion of the early eighteenth century.
- In 1702, the murder of one of them marked the outbreak of a full-scale guerrilla war of resistance: the war of the Camisards.
Origin
French, from Provençal camisa, from late Latin camisia 'shirt', because of the white shirts worn by the insurgents over their clothing for ease of recognition.