Word: parpaillot
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...French Maquis were famed in World War II. Members of the Protestant resistance were known as camisards-probably from the white nightshirts (camisia) that they wore at night so they could identify one another in the dark. The nightshirts made them look like butterflies and gave them another nickname: parpaillot, from the word for butterfly (papillon...
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