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/ˈpwasɑːd/ · noun
(now 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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Poissarde means (now historical) A fishwife, especially in France; specifically, any of the Parisian fishwives or market-women who led riots during the French Revolution..
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[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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