Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"mountaineer, highlander," 1842, from French montagnard, from montagne (12c., see mountain).\n
Wikipedia
Montagnard (of the mountain or mountain dweller) may refer to:
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Montagnard (French Revolution), members of The Mountain (La Montagne), a political group during the French Revolution (1790s)
- Montagnard (1848 revolution), members of the political group The Mountain (La Montagne) of the Second French Republic (1848)
- Montagnard (Vietnam) also known as Degar, the indigenous peoples of the Central Highlands of Vietnam
- Montagnard (Cambodia), name given by the French colonial administration to the Khmer Loeu, highland tribes in Cambodia
Usage examples of "montagnard".
Now this idiot would go back and report that I was here to lead a Montagnard insurrection.
This guy was old enough to have been a Montagnard fighter, and he was eyeing me like I might be here to give him new orders.
Special Forces guys handing out these nothing medals to their Montagnard fighters.
She buttoned her quilted jacket, put on a pair of biker goggles, tied a Montagnard scarf around her neck and face, and put on a black fur-trimmed leather hat with earflaps.
Montagnard biker costumes: leather jacket for me, quilted jacket for Susan, fur-trimmed leather hats, and Montagnard scarves.
I kept wiping my goggles and face with my Montagnard scarf, and my leather jacket was shiny with moisture.
Susan had her face turned away modestly, which was what a Montagnard woman would do.
Highway One, then we pulled over and got into our Montagnard scarves and the fur-trimmed leather hats.
French army including Foreign Legionnaires and about three thousand Montagnard and Vietnamese colonial troops set up a string of strongpoints in this valley, all named after women who had been mistresses of General de Castries.
Ban Hin was a Vietnamese village, not Montagnard, as we probably knew, and that the Vietnamese made bad jewelry, plus she never heard of jewelry being made in Ban Hin.
I could see Montagnard longhouses clinging precariously to cleared ridgelines, and it struck me that two very different civilizations existed in the same space, but vertically to one another.
They looked at me, who had been a Montagnard myself just two minutes ago, then looked back at Susan.
There were a number of young backpackers and middle-aged Western tourists, and many of them wore recently purchased articles of Montagnard clothing from different tribes, probably mixing tribes as well as genders.
Americans because two of the guys were wearing shorts in fifty-degree weather, and the women had bought and put on enough Montagnard jewelry to look like radar antennas.
Susan had placed herself in an aisle seat beside a middle-aged woman wearing Montagnard hoop earrings.