frondeur

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Then the Marquis de Simeuse, an old Burgundian, old Guiser, old leaguer, old frondeur (he inherited the four great rancors of the nobility against royalty), came to live at Cinq-Cygne.

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  1. French, literally a slinger, from fronder, sling, throw, fling, fig. carp at, rail at, find fault with, from fronde, a sling: see Fronde.
 

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