camisard

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camisard - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Camisard \Cam"i*sard\, n. [F.]
     One of the French Protestant insurgents who rebelled against
     Louis XIV, after the revocation of the edict of Nates; -- so
     called from the peasant's smock (camise) which they wore.
     [1913 Webster]