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ǁ Chouan sb.1. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1893, rev. 2025. ǁ Chouan sb.1 [F.: variously conjectured to be from the name of Jean Chouan, said to be one of their leaders, and from chouan an older form of chat-huant a species of owl. Probably the coincidence suggested the appellation.]

1   A name given to irregular bands who maintained in the west of France a partisan war against the Republic and the first Empire, after 1793, and also appeared again in 1832; hence a polemical name for partisans of the Bourbons. Also attrib.

2 1794.  European Mag., XXVI. 307. The Chouans … derive their name from their first leaders, three brothers, the sons of a postmaster in Brittany.

3 1805.  Revolut. Plutarch, III. 115–6. The first body of Chouan troops heard of, were those assembled in the winter of 1794 between Laval and La Gravelle.

4 1837.  Penny Cycl., VII. 117/2. Some of the Royalist officers … became chiefs of Chouan parties.

5 1868.  Timbs, Eccentr. Anim. Creation, 339. Every night the spirit of the officer, who was surprised and killed in this room by some chouans, comes back.

6   Hence Chonanize v., to play the Chouan; Chouanizing vbl. sb.

7 1847.  T. Redhead, trans. Thiers’ Fr. Rev. (1860), I. xxxix. 481. Emigrants … were very scarce … wherever civil war raged with its dangers and horrors. They affected great disdain for this species of service, and call it Chouannising.

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