bonnet rouge
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12 characters
Language
French
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bonnet rouge is aFrenchnoun. It means: Surnom donné aux insurgés de la révolte antifiscale dite du papier timbré qui eut lieu en Bretagne en 1675. Pronounced \bɔ.nɛ ʁuʒ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bonnet rouge |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔ.nɛ ʁuʒ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for bonnet rouge is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bɔ.nɛ ʁuʒ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for bonnet rouge in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is bonnet rouge, spelled B-O-N-N-E-T- -R-O-U-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Surnom donné aux insurgés de la révolte antifiscale dite du papier timbré qui eut lieu en Bretagne en 1675.
- 2Bonnet de laine rouge dont se coiffaient les sans-culottes, sous la Terreur, qui s’est répandu en France comme signe de l’égalité entre les citoyens, et est devenu un symbole de la République depuis 1792.
- 3Nom que donnèrent les royalistes (ou monarchistes), aux démocrates, partisans du gouvernement de la République, ou d’un régime républicain, après les excès de la Terreur, pendant la Révolution française.
- 4Partisans de mouvements de protestation bretons qui réutilisent le bonnet rouge comme symbole.
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