Meanings
noungilet jaune (plural gilets jaunes)
plural gilets jaunes
- plural normallyA yellow vest, a member of a French protest movement which started in 2018.
French protests are always lively, but as the journalist John Lichfield observed, “the white-hot anger” of the gilets jaunes was “something new and different”.
2023 November 17, Oliver Haynes, “Five years on, the world is failing to learn the gilets jaunes’ lesson about class and climate”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
Origin
- Frenchgilet jaune
- Englishgilet jaune
Borrowed from French gilet jaune.
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gilet jaune. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gilet%20jaune
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