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PASTOUREAUX

\pˈasta͡ʊ͡əɹˌə͡ʊ], \pˈasta‍ʊ‍əɹˌə‍ʊ], \p_ˈa_s_t_aʊə_ɹ_ˌəʊ]\

Definitions of PASTOUREAUX

1895 - Glossary of terms and phrases

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[O.Fr.] (Hist.) Peasants who took up arms, during the absence of St. Louis of France on his Crusade, under a Cistercian monk, who called himself Jacob, Master of Hungary. Another insurrection, so named, broke out seventy years later.

1895 - Glossary of terms and phrases
By Henry Percy Smith

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