frondeur
Definitions
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- noun A political rebel
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- noun In French history, a member of the Fronde.
- noun Hence, an opponent of a party in power; a member of the opposition.
Examples
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It seemed to me as if Lady Ommaney and my sister discussed, as if he had been their near relation, every symptom of him, who, in the eyes of all my recent companions, was nothing better than an old frondeur, a rebel richly deserving to be put to death.
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With many generations to come, the name of César de St. Auban must perforce be familiar as that of one of the greatest roysterers and most courtly libertines of the early days of Louis XIV., as well as that of a rabid anti-cardinalist and frondeur, and one of the earliest of that new cabal of nobility known as the petits-maîtres, whose leader the Prince de Condé was destined to become a few years later.
The Suitors of Yvonne: being a portion of the memoirs of the Sieur Gaston de Luynes
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Proud, hard to work with, jealous, and irascible, he was essentially the leader of opposition, the grumbler, and the _frondeur_.
The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377)
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Some one had once called him a frondeur; he was greatly delighted with that name.
Note
The word 'frondeur' comes from the French 'fronde', 'sling', which the frondeurs used to smash the windows of their opponents.
