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gilet jaune

gilet jaune noun: a yellow vest, a member of a French protest movement which started in 2018.

Noun

gilet jaune (plural gilets jaunes)

  1. (plural-normally) A yellow vest, a member of a French protest movement which started in 2018.
    • French protests are always lively, but as the journalist John Lichfield observed, “the white-hot anger” of the gilets jaunes was “something new and different”.2023 November 17, Oliver Haynes, “Five years on, the world is failing to learn the gilets jaunes’ lesson about class and climate”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Forms of gilet jaune

pluralgilets jaunes

Origin of gilet jaune

Borrowed from French gilet jaune.

Questions about gilet jaune

What does gilet jaune mean?
Gilet jaune means a yellow vest, a member of a French protest movement which started in 2018.
What part of speech is gilet jaune?
Gilet jaune is a noun.
What is the plural of gilet jaune?
The plural of gilet jaune is gilets jaunes.

Words near gilet jaune in the dictionary

  1. Gilenos
  2. Giles
  3. Giles County
  4. Gileston
  5. gilet
  6. gilet jaune
  7. gilets
  8. gilets jaunes
  9. Gilett
  10. Gilette
  11. Gileño

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