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‖ montagnard|mɔ̃taɲar|
[Fr., f. montagne: see mountain and -ard.]
1. An inhabitant of a mountain region; a highlander, mountaineer. Also attrib.
1842F. Trollope Vis. Italy I. i. 10 A montagnard population is always better worth looking at, than any other.
b. An aboriginal people living in the highlands of South Vietnam; a member of this people; also attrib. or as adj. Cf. Moi a. and n.
1962Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 1 Aug. 2/6 Montagnard scouts report that they have seen elephants carrying artillery pieces. Ibid., Whether a montagnard could distinguish between a mortar and a field piece [etc.]. 1966Listener 29 Dec. 949/2 Next..the mountains and the high plateaux where the Montagnard tribesman lives. 1968Ibid. 13 June 760/3 The Highlands take up half the physical area of South Vietnam but they contain less than one tenth of its people. Moreover most of these are not ethnic Vietnamese but hill tribes of South Seas descent whom the French called Montagnards and the Vietnamese call Moi, meaning savages. 1972Times 31 May 5/4 (caption) A Montagnard woman comforts her husband as he lies in Kontum hospital. 1972Guardian 3 June 11/1 The name Montagnard was first given to the hill tribes of Vietnam by the French colonisers—it means simply ‘the mountain people’. 1974Nature 15 Mar. 186/3 The Montagnards (the highlanders) conduct much of their agriculture in cleared areas of forests, and so their fields were often sprayed during attacks on the inland forests.
2. Hist. A member of the ‘Mountain’ or extreme democratic party in the legislatures of the first French revolution.
1879Encycl. Brit. IX. 602/2 The Montagnards alone..opposed a declaration of war. |