单词 | montagnard |
释义 | Montagnardn.adj. A. n. 1. French History. Usually in form Montagnard. A member of the ‘Mountain’, an extreme democratic party of the French Revolution (see mountain n. 5, and cf. mountaineer n. 4). ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > French politics > [noun] > extreme revolutionary sansculotte1790 Montagnard1794 mountainist1847 1794 F. D’Ivernois Let. 22 Aug. in T. Jefferson Papers (2000) XXVIII. 138 A new faction composed of the dregs of their own party..under the name of Marseillois and Montagnards..desired nothing less than the downfall of all religion. 1802 Sketch of Paris II. liii. 197 The montagnards or mountaineers, that is, those monsters who were always thirsting for blood. 1879 Encycl. Brit. IX. 602/2 The Montagnards alone..opposed a declaration of war. 1921 Amer. Hist. Rev. 27 374 The Revolutionary Commune seriously compromised the cause of the republic, and..was condemned by prominent Montagnards as well as by Girondists. 1955 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 27 17/1 The Montagnards, having achieved their political goal, henceforth regarded insurrectional activity with a jaundiced eye. 1992 H. Mantel Place of Greater Safety v. ii. 552 He..left the chamber, a knot of Montagnards clustering about it. 2. a. Usually in form Montagnard. A member of any of various hill-dwelling peoples of South-East Asia, esp. those inhabiting the highlands of Vietnam. See also Moi n. a. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > indigenous peoples of Vietnam > [noun] Moia1825 Montagnard1961 1951 Pacific Affairs 24 434 The upland people of southern Vietnam dislike being called Moi, i.e. ‘savage’, and prefer the French word montagnard, or highlander, which nowadays is employed frequently in indigenous speech.] 1961 D. Pike (title) Montagnards of the South Vietnam highlands. 1968 New Eng. Jrnl. Med. 1 Feb. 261/1 The mountainous terrain and dense jungle provided protection for the Montagnards. 1974 Nature 15 Mar. 186/3 The Montagnards (the highlanders) conduct much of their agriculture in cleared areas of forests. 1991 J. Mander In Absence of Sacred iv. xix. 356 The Vietnamese peninsula is the traditional home of at least fifty native nations, including the Cham, the Khmer, and the 800,000 Montagnards of the highland areas. b. gen. An inhabitant of a mountain region; a highlander. Cf. mountaineer n. 1a. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > [noun] > dweller on high land Highlandman1450 overlander1548 mountainer1577 mountaineer1599 highlander1614 mountainist1625 uplander1699 hillman1854 hill-woman1895 hillsider1898 tiersman1941 Montagnard1966 1966 New Statesman 17 June 870/1 What sort of people are these tradition-loving, easy-going Soviet montagnards? 1986 J. Wain Dear Shadows 71 Modern technological civilisation makes the life even of the montagnard softer and easier. 1995 S. Schama Landscape & Memory viii. 479 The sixteenth-century writers had done their best to make montagnards and lowland Swiss as similar as possible. B. adj. ΚΠ 1842 F. Trollope Visit to Italy I. i. 10 A montagnard population is always better worth looking at, than any other. 2. Usually in form Montagnard. Of, relating to, or designating the Montagnards of South-East Asia. See also Moi adj. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > indigenous peoples of Vietnam > [adjective] Moi1948 Montagnard1962 1962 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 1 Aug. 2/6 Montagnard scouts report that they have seen elephants carrying artillery pieces. 1972 Times 31 May 5/4 (caption) A Montagnard woman comforts her husband as he lies in Kontum hospital. 1985–6 Sight & Sound Winter 66/3 Joey strikes a dangerous heroin deal in a montagnard encampment in Thailand. a1992 L. Colwin Big Storm knocked it Over (1993) v. 32 On a shelf..she kept the things he had brought home to her from Vietnam... A little bamboo cricket cage, a brass Montagnard bracelet. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1794 |
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