Camisard
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One of the French Protestant insurgents who rebelled againstLouis XIV, after the revocation of the edict of Nates; -- so calledfrom the peasant's smock (camise) which they wore.
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A member of the French Protestant insurgents who rebelled against the persecution that followed the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
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