[F. frondeur, f. fronde (see FRONDE).]
1. Fr. Hist. A member of the Fronde.
1798. Anecd. Dist. Persons, IV. 333. Would to Heaven that the late Frondeurs in that Country had been as harmless.
2. transf. A malcontent, an ‘irreconcilable.’
1847. Longf., in Life (1891), II. 96. All Americans who return from Europe malcontent with their own country, we call Frondeurs,—from the faction in the days of the Régence.
1880. Daily Tel., 22 Sept. Are the French, then, incurable frondeurs? incorrigible revolutionists, who must attack a Minister simply because he is ‘in’?
