émeute

plural émeutes · alternative emeute

1. archaicA seditious tumult; an outbreak.

   1841: Frederic Tolfrey, The Sportsman in France Certain rumours of an emeute in Paris had reached the quiet little village of Arques towards the end of July, and on the 28th of the month the report was confirmed by the outbreak of the Revolution.

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   1834: George Browning, The Domestic and Financial Condition of Great Britain At court, all was uncertainty and gloom ; plots, intrigues, and conspiracies, were the ordinary topics of popular discussion ; and the outburst of some diabolical emeute to subvert the throne, was awaited with anxious apprehension.

   For when threatened with emeutes, Tarantara! Tarantara! And your heart is in your boots, Tarantara! There is nothing brings it round, Like the trumpet's martial sound, Tarantara! Tarantara! Tarantara!

   1879, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, The Pirates of Penzance […], Philadelphia: J.M. Stoddart & Co., published 1880, →OCLC