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Fronde

Fronde [ froNd ]


noun 
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civil disturbances in 17C France: a series of civil disturbances in mid-17th-century France, during the minority of Louis XIV, when aristocrats rebelled against the court and particularly the chief minister Jules, Cardinal Mazarin

[Late 18th century. < French, "sling"]
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