chauvin

From Chauvin, named after Nicolas Chauvin, a legendary and excessively patriotic soldier of the French First Republic. The figure of Chauvin became especially famous as a character in the play La Cocarde Tricolore by the Cogniard brothers (1831).

• IPA^(key): /ʃo.vɛ̃/

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chauvin (feminine chauvine, masculine plural chauvins, feminine plural chauvines)

1. (derogatory) jingoist (which demonstrates an excessive patriotism or an eagerness for national superiority)

   Synonym: cocardier

chauvin m (plural chauvins, feminine chauvine)

1. (derogatory) jingoist (someone who demonstrates an excessive patriotism or an eagerness for national superiority)
   • 1972, Georges Brassens, “La Ballade des gens qui sont nés quelque part”, in Fernande:

     Le reste avec mépris du haut de leurs remparts / La race des chauvins, des porteurs de cocardes

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• chauvinisme
• chauviniste

• → Czech: šovén

• “chauvin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.