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GIRONDE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The French moderate political party that was in power (1791-1793) during the French Revolution
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Gironde" is a kind of...):
party; political party (an organization to gain political power)
Derivation:
Girondist (a member of the moderate republican party that was in power during the French Revolution; the Girondists were overthrown by their more radical rivals the Jacobins)
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