1. a peasant revolt, especially a violent uprising of the peasant class against the nobility
Usage: historical

Examples

• The jacquerie of 1358 in France was brutally suppressed by the nobility.
• Historians study the causes that led to the medieval jacquerie.
• The economic hardships sparked a jacquerie in the countryside.
• The jacquerie represented the desperation of the oppressed peasant class.
• Noble families fled their estates during the jacquerie.
• The term jacquerie comes from the French peasant name Jacques.