cagoulard

French

cagoulard (plural cagoulards)

1. (historical) A member of La Cagoule; a far-right-wing revolutionary or activist.
   • 2002, K. Moure & Martin S. Alexander, Crisis and Renewal in France: 1918-1962, p. 94:

     Moreover, Henry Charbonneau, a cagoulard, portrayed Henri Martin, head of the Cagoule's "intelligence" section in November 1937, as "an incorrigible mythomane," and Deloncle as a devotee of "intelligence."

   • 2003, Ronald Tiersky, François Mitterrand: A Very French President:

     Arrighi replied by exhuming an old accusation that in the 1930s as a teenager Mitterrand had been a cagoulard, a member of the extreme-rightist, violent pro-fascist organization known as La Cagoule, "the Cowl."

• cagoule

From cagoule +‎ -ard.

• IPA^(key): /ka.ɡu.laʁ/

cagoulard m (plural cagoulards, feminine cagoularde)

1. (historical) cagoulard

• “cagoulard” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).