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Maquisard

NOUN
  1. a guerrilla fighter in the French underground in World War II

How To Use Maquisard In A Sentence

  • There were two gendarmes on bicycles who were liaison agents and a small floating population of chauffeurs and maquisards undertaking various duties.
  • Second, women did not generally fight, but they formed linkages helping maquisards, who were often from distant towns and cities, gain rural acceptance.
  • Local women persuaded "Lieutenant Pierre", the maquisard in charge, to spare a few of them. Top stories from Times Online
  • Whip this maquisard outfit into something efficient. Agent Of The Terran Empire
  • Page 89: Armed maquisard, courtesy of the National Archives, Kew Shadow Knights
  • ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~French Vocabulary~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ la porte-fenêtre (f) = door-window; la serveuse (f) = barmaid; le patron (la patronne) = business owner; la Libération (f) = the freeing from foreign occupation; la mode (f) = fashion; le maquisard (m) = "man of the maquis" (wild mediterranean scrubland) or French resistance fighter hidden in the forests and mountains during WWII; la carrosserie (f) = automobile bodyshop WWII soldiers remembrance
  • The American commander refused to accept the German’s surrender unless it was made jointly to him and to the maquisard commander at his side, around whose shoulder the Yank had draped his arm. Shadow Knights
  • He had been a member of the vanguard, was captured by armed civilians and taken through Oradour, which was full of Maquisards.
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