Etymology

jacquerie

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Today it means: A revolt organized by peasants, typically violent. Full definition →

French jacquerie
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  1. French · borrowed fromjacquerie
  2. French · borrowed fromjacquerie
  3. English todayjacquerie

Borrowed from French jacquerie, from Jacquerie (derogatory nickname for peasants, literally “James”) + -erie. First attested in the early 1500s. In reference to the Jacquerie uprising of 1358 during the Hundred Years' War.

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