Noun: conventionnel
| Singular | conventionnel |
| Plural | conventionnels |
Sample Sentences
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To calm their nerves and dispel the phantoms of their imaginations, the conventionnels proposed a series of fantastic draconian measures designed to insure tranquillity during the voting. [1979, David P Jordan, The King's Trial, University of California, published 1979, page 178:]
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When the crowds burst again into the assembly hall, they bore with them on a pike the head of a conventionnel, Féraud, who had tried to bar their path. [2004, David Andress, The French Revolution and the People, London, page 236:]
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The Conventionnels who had voted for the measure included many who had worked closely with deputies now under arrest for their part in the Terror. [2006, Howard G Brown, Ending the French Revolution, University of Virginia, published 2008, page 27:]
Nouns inflected like conventionnel
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from French conventionnel. See: French Nouns '
conventionnel'.