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- noun A person who lives in a
commune
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Examples
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His studies were cut short by the traumatic events of the Franco-Prussian War and its aftermath, and he was one of the thousands of communard refugees who fled to London in 1871.
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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His studies were cut short by the traumatic events of the Franco-Prussian War and its aftermath, and he was one of the thousands of communard refugees who fled to London in 1871.
Victoria 2009
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Babette, master chef and communard, has been taken in by two pious Scandinavian spinsters after being forced to leave France because of her radical political activity.
Moral Fiction 2005
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Babette, master chef and communard, has been taken in by two pious Scandinavian spinsters after being forced to leave France because of her radical political activity.
Moral Fiction 2005
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He is a nobleman of ancient lineage, and at the same time a Parisian communard.
A Raw Youth 2003
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And while everyone around cheers for the sow, the communard is all alone.
Hard to be a god Strugatski, Arkadi & Strugatski, Boris 1973
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Inside each of us, the noble wild sow struggles with the communard.
Hard to be a god Strugatski, Arkadi & Strugatski, Boris 1973
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But neither was he a communard, a comrade any longer.
Hard to be a god Strugatski, Arkadi & Strugatski, Boris 1973
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One communard added that fighting was not the only possible strategy with the jocks; they could also be talked to, perhaps even persuaded because, unlike the cops, "they're like us"; I thought this a shrewd point.
An Exchange on Columbia Morris, Ivan 1968
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Manet they could stand, even Claude Monet; but Cézanne -- communard and anarchist he must be (so said the wise ones in official circles), for he was such a villainous painter!
Promenades of an Impressionist James Huneker 1890
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