girondist

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Adjective, Noun

HYPHEN

Gi=ron=dist

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun girondist has 1 sense

girondist(n = noun.person) girondin - a member of the moderate republican party that was in power during the French Revolution; the Girondists were overthrown by their more radical rivals the Jacobins; Array

is a kind of revolutionary, revolutionist, subversive, subverter

Derived form noun gironde₁

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CIDE DICTIONARY

girondist, n. [F. Girondiste.].

A member of the moderate republican party formed in the French legislative assembly in 1791. The Girondists were so called because their leaders were deputies from the department of La Gironde. [1913 Webster]

girondist, a.

Of or pertaining to the Girondists. [1913 Webster]

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