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noun - a French soldier (especially in World War I)
noun - thick stew made of rice and chicken and small game
A French soldier, especially in World War I.
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| Slang A French soldier, especially in World War I. |
| an infantry soldier in the French army, especially one who fought in the First World War. |
| thick stew made of rice and chicken and small game southern U.S. |
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Poilu (; French: [pwaly]) is an informal term for a French World War I infantryman, meaning, literally, hairy one. It is still widely used as a term of endearment for the French infantry of World War I. The word carries the sense of the infantryman's typically rustic, agricultural background. Beards and bushy moustaches were often worn. The poilu was particularly known for his love of pinard, his ration of cheap wine.* The image of the dogged, bearded French soldier was widely used in propaganda and war memorials. * The stereotype of the Poilu was of bravery and endurance, but not always of unquestioning obedience. At the disastrous Chemin des Dames offensive of 1917 under General Robert Nivelle, they were said to have gone into no man's land making baa'ing noisesa collective bit of gallows humour signalling the idea that they were being sent as lambs to the slaughter. Outstanding for its mixture of horror and heroism, this spectacle proved a sobering one. As the news of it spread, the |