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  • noun Plural form of communard.

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Examples

  • The most striking aspect of the communards was their relaxed nature once the usual authority figures had disappeared.

    Archive 2005-09-01 Sam Jordison 2005

  • The most striking aspect of the communards was their relaxed nature once the usual authority figures had disappeared.

    Failed revolutionaries Sam Jordison 2005

  • Some 20,000 "communards" as they were called, were summarily executed by their fellow French.

    TravelPod.com Recent Updates 2009

  • Local newspapers labeled the protestors “communards.” The recently defeated Paris Commune had ignited a hysterical fear of “un-American” radicalism, a toxin that has never since left the American bloodstream.

    Steve Fraser: Uncle Sam Doesn't Want You Steve Fraser 2011

  • Local newspapers labeled the protestors “communards.” The recently defeated Paris Commune had ignited a hysterical fear of “un-American” radicalism, a toxin that has never since left the American bloodstream.

    Steve Fraser: Uncle Sam Doesn't Want You Steve Fraser 2011

  • The pamphlet depicts (in the style of an airplane emergency card) office workers snapping, destroying their workplace and turning into carnal, hunter-gatherer communards.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • In the 1960s and 1970s, cybernetic ideas brought groups of military-funded computer researchers together with Deadheads, radical environmentalists, and art communards in the San Francisco Bay area.

    The Moral Life of Cubicles « Isegoria 2008

  • I made an ironic reference to people who publish stuff that probably frightens some very vulnerable people not themselves being willing to be named to avoid the risk of intimidation by the legions of red communards and resettled Baadher - Meinhof who run riot on every main street in England.

    Ruralshire Constabulary lost data scandal! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008

  • Blowitz's obsession with destiny, etc., his tales of adventures with Marseilles communards, mysterious European royalty, and his kidnapping by gypsies, are to be found in the Memoirs; the story that he and his lover threw the lady's husband overboard in Marseilles harbour is told by Prince von Bulow, later German Chancellor, who is not regarded as an invariably reliable source.

    Watershed 2010

  • "Particularly some of the communards who passed through," says Geetie.

    'It was an amazing way to grow up' Sally Weale 2010

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