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Noun: Girondist  ju'róndist
  1. A member of the moderate republican party that was in power during the French Revolution; the Girondists were overthrown by their more radical rivals the Jacobins
    - Girondin

Derived forms: Girondists

See also: Gironde

Type of: revolutionary, revolutionist, subversive, subverter

Encyclopedia: Girondist