émeute

• emeute

Borrowed from French.

émeute (plural émeutes)

1. (archaic) A seditious tumult; an outbreak.
   • 1834: George Browning, The Domestic and Financial Condition of Great Britain

     At court, all was uncertainty and gloom ; plots, intrigues, and conspiracies, were the ordinary topics of popular discussion ; and the outburst of some diabolical emeute to subvert the throne, was awaited with anxious apprehension.

   • 1841: Frederic Tolfrey, The Sportsman in France

     Certain rumours of an emeute in Paris had reached the quiet little village of Arques towards the end of July, and on the 28th of the month the report was confirmed by the outbreak of the Revolution.

   • 1879, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, The Pirates of Penzance  […], Philadelphia: J.M. Stoddart & Co., published 1880, →OCLC:

     For when threatened with emeutes,
     Tarantara! Tarantara!
     And your heart is in your boots,
     Tarantara!
     There is nothing brings it round,
     Like the trumpet's martial sound,
     Tarantara! Tarantara! Tarantara!

From the old past participle of émouvoir (“to move emotionally”), influenced by meute (“pack (of hounds)”).

• IPA^(key): /e.møt/

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émeute f (plural émeutes)

1. riot
2. (figuratively) chaos, disorder

• émeutier

• “émeute”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Unadapted borrowing from French émeute.

émeute c

1. (obsolete) émeute

   Synonyms: kravall, resning, tumult, uppror

   • 1881 September 2, “Arbetsklassen i Paris [The working class in Paris]”, in Aftonbladet, page 3:

     Denna målning är mycket olik det begrepp, som utländingar göra sig om den parisiske arbetarens karaktär. Hans revolutionära sinnelag, hans utorott af blodigt våld, skräckväldet, 1848 års émeutes, och kommunen ha ingifvit mången föreställningen, att parisarne äro lättretliga, skoningslösa, tidtals vilda – just motsatsen af den lugna, betänksamma, milda karaktär, som hr Pauliat tillägger dem.

     This portrayal differs greatly from the notion which foreigners commonly form of the Parisian working man’s character. His revolutionary disposition, his recourse to bloody violence, the Reign of Terror, the émeutes of 1848, and the Commune have led many to conceive of the Parisians as irascible, ruthless, at times savage—precisely the opposite of the calm, reflective, and gentle nature which Mr. Pauliat ascribes to them.

   • 1901 September 14, Richard Henry Savage, I det gamla slottet, sourced from Helsingborgs-Posten Skåne-Halland, page 4:

     De åtta polska provinserna inom Ryssland äro färdiga till uppror. Hvarje émeute der skulle vara förgäfves, ni skulle endast bli en Varus bland moderna barbarer.

     The eight Polish provinces under Russian rule are ripe for revolt. Any rising there would be in vain; you would but become a Varus among modern barbarians.

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