‖ dynamitard
[f. dynamite, after Fr. communard. (Not in recognized Fr. use, though it may have occurred in French newspapers.)]
= dynamiter.
| 1882 Pall Mall G. 28 Oct. l/2 ‘Red Spectre in France.’ The public confession that the ‘dynamitards’ had paralyzed the administration of justice. 1883 Ibid. 2 Feb. 1/2 The Dynamitards have not secured the return of a single deputy even for the ‘reddest’ constituency in France. 1883 Athenæum 29 Dec. 876/1 A melodrama..dealing with the proceedings of English dynamitards. 1892 G. B. Shaw Fabian Soc. 5 Not that we were dynamitards..how innocent we were of any practical acquaintance with explosives. 1917 T. E. Lawrence Lett. (1938) 232 The Ageyl dynamitards were inefficient, and our supply of dynamite small. |