revanchardadj.
/rəˈvɒnʃɑː/, /rᵻˈvan(t)ʃəd/, /rᵻˈvan(t)ʃɑːd/, U.S. /rəˈvɑn(t)ʃərd/ = revanchist adj. Chiefly with reference to France or French people.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > revenge > [adjective] > relating to or characterized by policy
revanchist1886
revanchard1916
1916 Fortn. Rev. 1 Sept. 481 The Government of France has never been revanchard.
1930 Amer. Hist. Rev. 35 669 Consorting with republican revanchard France.
1967 P. C. F. Bankwitz Maxime Weygand & Civil-mil. Relations in Mod. France v. 206 Confronted with a revanchard Germany, Weygand at this time must have felt himself to be the last representative of the old order of ‘strong men’.
2001 P. Dine French Rugby Football i. 29 A Catholic populist whose revanchard belligerence attracted elements of the new urban working class.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1916- in the guise of …, in lowly festive, guise
- in the haberdashery way
- in the habit habits of doing
- in the habit of doing
- in the hale
- in the halfpenny place
- in the hands of
- in the hard
- in the hazard of
- in the head of
- in the heat of (the) battle
- in the heel of the hunt
- in the heels of the hunt
- in the height
- in the herb
- in the high ruff
- in the highest
- in the hole
- in the honorance of
- in the honour of
- in the hundred
- in the individual
- in the inside of
- in the interest interests of
- in the interest of