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Word of the Day: jacquerie jacquerie (noun) zhah-kuh-REE Definition : (often capitalized Jacquerie) a peasants’ revolt Examples “There were no bloodthirsty sansculottes preparing to erect guillotines; nor were farmers, however angry about government excise taxes and other matters—as Shays’s Rebellion suggested—ready to burn down the manorial estates of their feudal overlords in some version of…