# Camisard

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. One of the Huguenots of the Cévennes region of south-central France, who rose up against the persecutions which followed the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685.

## Etymology
French, from the peasant's smock or camise which they wore.

## Source
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