jacquerie
pronunciation
How to pronounce jacquerie in British English:
UK [ʒɑ:kˈri:]
How to pronounce jacquerie in American English:
US [ʒɑˈkri]
Word Origin
- jacquerie (n.)
- 1520s, from Middle French jacquerie "peasants or villeins collectively," from Jacques, the proper name, which is used as Jack is used in English, in the sense of "any common fellow." So, also, "the rising of the northern French peasants against the nobles, 1357-8," from a French usage. Etymologically, Jacques is from Late Latin Iacobus (see Jacob).
Example
- 1. The french tradition of rebellion reaches way back , past 1789 to the 1358 jacquerie revolt , and beyond .
- 2. With a nod to the jacquerie uprising of 1358 , nicolas baverez , an economic commentator , calls this the exception fran & ccedil ; aise .
- 3. Look around and consider the lives of all the world that we know , consider the faces of all the world that we know , consider the rage and discontent to which the jacquerie addresses itself with more and more of certainty every hour .