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† camisard, camisar [a. F. camisard, f. Pr. camisa shirt- + ard: cf. camisade.] ‘Name given to the Calvinist insurgents of the Cevennes, during the persecution which followed the revocation of the edict of Nantes’ (Littré). Also attrib.
1703Lond. Gaz. No. 3908/3 Accounts..of the Successes of the Camisars against the French King's Forces. Ibid. No. 3973/2 These Roman Catholicks call themselves the White Camisars, or the Florentines. 1710Steele & Addison Tatler No. 257 ⁋12 Brownists, Independents, Masonites, Camisars, and the like. 1816Keatinge Trav. I. 30 They could effect little in a midnight warfare against Camisards. 1882–3Schaff Relig. Encycl. I. 376 Without leaders the Camisard army gradually melted away. |