maquis

Examples

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• Soldiers rounded up a few people suspected of giving shelter and food to the maquis, Republican guerrillas who lived in the mountains and made sporadic attacks against Franco's regime.

  Academic text (2006)

• Somewhere in the town, an old man, probably one of the maquis, was waiting for someone to come care for his wife so he could explain to the American lieutenant's son exactly what happened one day beside the river.

  Fiction book (2001)

• Even if they crossed the river and gained the railroad tracks, there was no field of fire from there onto the maquis' position.

  Fiction book (2001)

• Jean explained how the old man's sergeant sent men against the maquis by the river and killed them both.

  Fiction book (2001)

• But because of Richard's father, who had held the road against the Germans with two other men, the maquis had escaped.

  Fiction book (2001)

• Jean explained that the old man's sergeant sent him across the river to climb until he had a clear field of fire on the maquis' position.

  Fiction book (2001)

• Because so many of the rebel groups operated in the remote maquis where intelligence-gathering was difficult, the Algerian security forces often placed double agents inside armed groups.

  Blog text (4)

• He and the guerrilleros españoles joined forces with the French maquis to mount an operation against the Germans.

  Fiction book (2001)

• During the war, many ordinary citizens joined the maquis to fight against the occupation forces.

• The maquis played a crucial role in gathering intelligence for the Allied forces during World War II.

Synonyms

G

guerrilla

vsmaquis

136 7.7

A fighter in a small armed group who attacks a larger army using surprise attacks

refers to French World War II resistance fighters rather than any irregular combatant

M

maquisard

vsmaquis

• Archaic

9.9

A person who fought secretly with the French resistance against German soldiers in World War II

has identical meaning but is a different word form

Surface Forms

Etymology