Etymology

maquisard

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Today it means: A member of a resistance or guerrilla movement, originally and chiefly that of the French during the German occupation of 1940-5. Full definition →

First used 1940sFrench maquisard
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  1. French · borrowed frommaquisard
  2. English todaymaquisard

Borrowed from French maquisard.

First known use, by meaning

  • from 1940s A member of a resistance or guerrilla movement, originally and chiefly that of the French during the German occupation of 1940-5.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.