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Rossignol is a French word meaning nightingale. It may also refer to:
- Le rossignol, an opera by Igor Stravinsky
- Skis Rossignol, a French manufacturer of clothing and sports equipment
- Battle of Rossignol, WWI battle 22 August 1914 near Tintigny, Belgium
Usage examples of "rossignol".
The men were coming out from the Rossignol pulpwood camps for Christmas, and we were to pay their little Wages Due slips and speed them on their way.
She arranged herself, a bit stiffly, in an armchair in the Grand Salon, and discoursed sotto voce with Bonaventure Rossignol.
Reaching this gallery, anyway, he smelled eau de cologne, and placed his left hand on the scabbard of his rapier (a style of weapon that had gone out of fashion, but it was the one his father, Antoine Rossignol, the King’.
Nothing disgusts him physically or morally: he embraces Marat,[61] fraternizes with drunkards, congratulates the Septembriseurs, retorts in blackguard terms to the insults of prostitutes, treats reprobates, thieves and jail-birds as equals, - Carra, Westermann, Huguenin, Rossignol and the confirmed scoundrels whom he sends into the departments after the 2nd of September.
But seen from within—which was how Eliza and Monsieur Bonaventure Rossignol were seeing it—the place looked like a perfectly innocent little port-town that had been hurled into a prison, or had had a prison erected around it.
Montagnards, the most sanguinary and foul proconsuls, Dartigoyte and Piochefer-Bernard, Darthé, Lebon's secretary, Rossignol the great September massacrer, the presidents of former revolutionary committees, "patriotic robbers, seal-breakers" and garroters, brazenly promenade the streets of Paris.
Gil Rossignol was his namea name to set you thinking of the French quarter of New Orleans and showboats, of cabaret and gamblers with concealed derringersexcept that Rossignol's raw T-bone bulk contradicted this image flatly.