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Definition of Camisard
1. n. 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.
Definition of Camisard
1. Noun. (historical) One of the French Protestants of the Cevennes region of south-central France, who raised an insurrection against the persecutions which followed the revocation of the (w Edict of Nantes) in 1685. ¹
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