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OP For obvious reasons, Gurunet's word of the day caught my eye: Jacquerie.
Jac·que·rie (zhä-krē')
n.
1. The uprising of the French peasants against the nobility in 1358.
2. jacquerie A peasant revolt, especially a very bloody one.
[French, from Old French jacquerie, peasantry, from jacques, peasant. See jacket.]
jack·et
[Middle English jaket, from Old French jaquet, diminutive of jaque, short jacket, tunic, from jacques, nickname for French peasants (from the name Jacques; see jack) or from Old Catalan jaco (perhaps from Arabic šakk, mailcoat).]
Jack
[From the name Jack, from Middle English Jakke, possibly from Old French Jacques, from Late Latin Iacōbus. See Jacob.
Jacob
[Late Latin Iacōbus, from Greek Iakōb, from Hebrew ya‘ăqōb, (God) has protected.]
And (God) has protected you (and all of us fellow peasants) by letting us have mind enough to sew jackets to keep us warm in winter.
I get it.
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