émeute
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from French.
Noun
émeute (plural émeutes)
- (archaic) A seditious tumult; an outbreak.
- 1834: George Browning, The Domestic and Financial Condition of Great Britain
- At court, all was uncertainty and gloom ; plots, intrigues, and conspiracies, were the ordinary topics of popular discussion ; and the outburst of some diabolical emeute to subvert the throne, was awaited with anxious apprehension.
- 1841: Frederic Tolfrey, The Sportsman in France
- Certain rumours of an emeute in Paris had reached the quiet little village of Arques towards the end of July, and on the 28th of the month the report was confirmed by the outbreak of the Revolution.
- 1879, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, The Pirates of Penzance […], Philadelphia: J.M. Stoddart & Co., published 1880, →OCLC:
- For when threatened with emeutes,
Tarantara! Tarantara!
And your heart is in your boots,
Tarantara!
There is nothing brings it round,
Like the trumpet's martial sound,
Tarantara! Tarantara! Tarantara!
- 1834: George Browning, The Domestic and Financial Condition of Great Britain
French
Etymology
From the old past participle of émouvoir (“to move emotionally”), influenced by meute (“pack (of hounds)”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e.møt/
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Related terms
Further reading
- “émeute”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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