Definition/Meaning of Camisard

• English - Noun: Camisard ( plural Camisards ) ( historical ) One of the French Protestants of the Cevennes region of south-central France , who raised an insurrection against the persecutions which followed the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685.
• English - Etymology: French , from the peasant's smock or camise which they wore .