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felquiste
< French
DCHP-2 (May 2016)
Spelling variants:Felquiste,
n. — historical, Quebec
a member of the terrorist Front de Libération du Québec.
Type: 1. Origin — The word, a loan word from Canadian French, is most prevalent in French Canadian texts, but has found entry into Canadian English. As the quotations show, however, the term is often glossed or explained, which indicates a non-integrated loan word. As shown in Chart 1, the term is almost exclusively used in Canada. The term is likely created on the French pronunciation of FLQ, which is the abbreviation for the Front de Libération du Québec.
Quotations
1982
Such is the mystique surrounding the FLQ - and evident at the December Parti Québécois convention when Jacques Rose was given a hero's ovation - that even a dull book by a Felquiste is assured a reverent reception.
1984
Hubert Aquin and his "underground" fantasies before he was treated in a mental hospital were not the exception, he was the very prototype of the felquiste.
1996
Now a father of two, he has settled into a respectable family state near Trois-Rivieres and discourages prying into his present life and felquiste past.
2005
Since he started listening to Loco Locass six months ago, the high school student says he has the spirit of a "Felquiste" -- a name derived from the pronunciation of the defunct terrorist group's French acronym, FLQ.
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