carmagnole

Meaning

Noun

• A popular Red Republican song and dance, of the time of the first French Revolution.
• A short jacket, fashionable during the French Revolution, with short skirts, a broad collar and lapels, and several rows of buttons.
• A bombastic report from the French armies.

Origin

• 18th-century, borrowed from French carmagnole, named after Carmagnole, the French name of the northwestern Italian town of Carmagnola.