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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One of the French Protestants of the Cévennes who took up arms in defense of their civil and religious liberties early in the eighteenth century: so called from the white blouses worn by the peasants who were the chief actors in the insurrection.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun 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.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun historical One of the French Protestants of the Cevennes region of south-central France, who raised an insurrection against the persecutions which followed the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685.

Etymologies

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French, from the peasant's smock or camise which they wore.

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