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Cagoulard

[kag-oo-lahr, kag-oo-lahr, ka-goo-lahr]

noun

plural

Cagoulards 
  1. a member of a secret French organization, active 1932–40, that conspired to overthrow the Third Republic.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of Cagoulard1

< French, equivalent to cagoule hood ( cowl ) + -ard -ard
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Example Sentences

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He trails a faint odor of Cagoulard, the Royalist-Fascist secret society of unsavory name in the latter days of the Third Republic.

Before World War II, P�tain's name was involved with the fascist Cagoulard attempt to seize power.

There she gets mixed up with a Masked Bandit, who turns out to be Joseph Calleia disguised as a cagoulard.

With True in this effort to establish a Cagoulard organization in this country, were some of the most active Nazi agents and patrioteers.

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