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CAMISARD

Definition: CAMISARD

CAMISARD

Noun

1. One of the French Protestant insurgents who rebelled against Louis XIV, after the revocation of the edict of Nates; -- so called from the peasant's smock (camise) which they wore.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Camisard \Cam"i*sard\, noun. [French expression]. (Websters 1913)



Specialty Definitions: CAMISARD

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Literature

Camisard In French history, the Camisards are the Protestant insurgents of the Cevennes, who resisted the violence of the dragonnades, after the revocation of the edict of Nantes. Their leader was Cavalier, afterwards Governor of Jersey. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: CAMISARD

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Books

  • Castanet : le camisard de l'Aigoual (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Modern Translations: CAMISARD

Language Translations for "camisard"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Pig Latin

  

amisardcay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "CAMISARD"

Words rhyming with "CAMISARD" (pronounced 'Cam"i*sard'): Musard. (additional references)

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Anagrams: CAMISARD

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-i-m-r-s"

-1 letter: acarids, aramids, ascarid, cardias.

-2 letters: acarid, aramid, cairds, camisa, cardia, damars, darics, disarm, dramas, madras, racism.

-3 letters: acari, acids, acrid, amias, amids, amirs, arias, asdic, cadis, caids, caird, camas, cards, crams, damar, daric, drama, drams, maars, maids, mairs, marcs, maria, micas, micra, raias, raids, sacra, scram, scrim, simar.

-4 letters: acid, aids, aims, airs, amas, amia, amid, amir, amis, arcs, aria, arid, arms, asci, cadi, cads, caid, cams, card, cars, casa, cram, cris, dais, dams, dims, disc, dram, maar, macs, mads, maid, mair, marc, mars, mica, mids, mirs, rads, raia, raid, rami, rams, rias, rids, rims, sadi, said, sard, sari, scad, scam, scar, sima.

-5 letters: aas, ads, aid, aim, air, ais, ama, ami, arc, arm, ars, cad, cam, car, cis, dam, dim, dis, ids, ism, mac, mad, mar, mas, mid, mir, mis, rad, ram, ras, ria, rid, rim, sac, sad, sic, sim, sir, sri.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-d-i-m-r-s"
 

+1 letter: dramatics.

 

+2 letters: carbamides, paramedics, radicalism.

 

+3 letters: acrylamides, caramelised, cardiograms, microfarads, radicalisms.

 

+4 letters: aerodynamics, camaraderies, chambermaids, demarcations, paramedicals.

 

+5 letters: blackguardism, disaffirmance, melodramatics, rhabdomancies, sacerdotalism.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: CAMISARD


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 41 4D 49 53 41 52 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-.    .-    --    ..    ...    .-    .-.    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01000001 01001101 01001001 01010011 01000001 01010010 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#65 &#77 &#73 &#83 &#65 &#82 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0041 004D 0049 0053 0041 0052 0044

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3735474353355238

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Translations: Modern
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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