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poissarde

/ˈpwasɑːd/ UK
/ˈpwasɑɹd/ US

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From French poissarde.

noun poissardes

historical A fishwife, especially in France; specifically, any of the Parisian fishwives or market-women who led riots during the French Revolution. [T]he destruction of the most ancient Empires on record has nothing more wonderful, nor of more sounding improbability, than the demolition of this Great Nation […] Even the Amazons were but the poissardes of the Day […].

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@misc{poissarde_2026,
  title = {poissarde},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/poissarde},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}