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gilets jaunes

gilets jaunes is the plural of gilet jaune.

Meaning of gilet jaune

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

Questions about gilets jaunes

What is gilets jaunes the plural of?
Gilets jaunes is the plural of gilet jaune.

Words near gilets jaunes in the dictionary

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

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