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单词 révoltée
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révoltéen.

Brit. /ˌreɪvəʊlˈteɪ/, U.S. /ˌreɪvoʊlˈteɪ/
Forms: 1800s– revoltée, 1900s– révoltée, 1900s– revoltee.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French révoltée.
Etymology: < French révoltée (1750 or earlier), feminine form corresponding to révolté révolté n. Compare earlier revolt n.2, révolté n., and revoltress n.Compare the title of J. Lemaître's play Révoltée (1889), also cited in an English context:1890 N.Y. Times 4 Nov. 6/1 His first and only play, ‘The Révoltée’, it will be remembered. O.E.D. Suppl. (1982) (at révolté sb.) gives the pronunciation as (revǫlte) /revɒlte/.
A female rebel.
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1895 M. Loyd tr. Prince de Joinville Mem. vii. 155 At a certain point the [female] dancers, representing the revoltées, armed themselves with bows and shot a cloud of arrows into the wings.
1910 G. B. Shaw in Nation 24 Dec. 544/1 Mary Fitton is quite modern, an amoureuse and a révoltée.
1920 M. H. Bradley Fortieth door 27 No husband. I am one of the young revoltées.
1963 ‘Han Suyin’ Four Faces 219 The British have always had the genius of stimulating revoltees.
2002 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 30 Mar. 9 An extreme character..a wild animal... A revoltee.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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