DCHP-3

guignoleux

[< Cdn F < Guignolée, q.v.]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n. pl.

groups of young men taking part in a Guignolée.

Quotations

1955
So it was in many a town and village on the St. Lawrence when the "guignoleux" used to set out on New Year's Eve . . . [and] with long sticks would knock on each door, keeping time by their knocking to the rhythm of their song.