(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 22:19:49

Cam"i*sard (?), n. [F.]

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.

 

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