gilet jaune

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gilet jaune

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Borrowed from French gilet jaune.

noun gilets jaunes

  1. plural normally A yellow vest, a member of a French protest movement which started in 2018. French protests are always lively, but as the journalist John Lichfield observed, “the white-hot anger” of the gilets jaunes was “something new and different”.

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@misc{gilet_jaune_2026,
  title = {gilet jaune},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/gilet%20jaune},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}