Camisard n. One of the French Protestant insurgents who rebelled against Louis XIV, after the revocation of the edict of Nates; so called from the peasant's smock (camise) which they wore.
... many phases of alternate hope and despair. She knew that Montgomery the Camisard was dead, and a rumour, carried by refugees, reached her that De la Foret had been with him to the end. To this was presently added the word that De la Foret had been beheaded. But one day she learned that ... — The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
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