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Carmagnole   Listen
noun
Carmagnole  n.  
1.
A popular or Red Rebublican song and dance, of the time of the first French Revolution. "They danced and yelled the carmagnole."
2.
A bombastic report from the French armies.





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"Carmagnole" Quotes from Famous Books



... when the knights of the 'bonnet rouge' and 'carmagnole complete' burst into the castle, to destroy every memorial of hated royalty, the shell among the rest, there chanced—miraculous coincidence—to be in Pau, in the collection of a naturalist, another shell, of the same shape and size. Swiftly and deftly pious hands substituted it for the ...
— Prose Idylls • Charles Kingsley
... term for the embracing, the prancing, the Carmagnole-like ecstasy of the half-clad madmen running amuck in the almost unendurable joy of liberation. Barney knew that this condition of things would never do. All who bore commissions in the army were selected ...
— The Iron Game - A Tale of the War • Henry Francis Keenan
... applied to by a travelling singer to join him in a concert, he made his first public appearance in the great theatre at Genoa, and played the French air "La Carmagnole," with his own ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 17, Number 490, Saturday, May 21, 1831 • Various


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