frondeur

[fron-dur; Fr. frawn-dœr]

fron·deur

[fron-dur; Fr. frawn-dœr]
noun, plural fron·deurs [-durz; Fr. -dœr] .
a rebel; rioter.

Origin:
1790–1800; < French: literally, a participant in the Fronde (the rebellion against royal authority during the minority of Louis XIV), equivalent to Fronde + -eur -eur
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Frondeur is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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Frondeur (frɒnˈdɜː, French frɔ̃dœr)
 
n
1.  French history a member of the Fronde
2.  any malcontent or troublemaker

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