muscadin

[ muhs-kuh-din; French my-skah-dan ]

noun,plural mus·ca·dins [muhs-kuh-dins; French my-skah-dan]. /ˈmʌs kə dɪns; French mü skɑˈdɛ̃/.
  1. a person with monarchical sympathies during the French Revolution, especially from 1794 to 1796.

  2. a French fop or dandy of this period.

Origin of muscadin

1
1785–95; <French: dandy, fop, literally, lozenge containing musk (used by such dandies) <Italian moscardino, derivative (with -ardino;see -ard, -in1) of moscado, moscato, equivalent to mosc- (<Late Latin; see musk) + -ato-ate1

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