parpaillot

• parpaillaud (obsolete)
• parpayot

Borrowed from Occitan parpalhòt (“butterfly”), probably an allusion to the infidelity of Protestants who "flutter from church to church".

• IPA^(key): /paʁ.pa.jo/

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• Rhymes: -jo
• Hyphenation: par‧pa‧illot

parpaillot m (plural parpaillots, feminine parpaillote)

1. (derogatory) Protestant

   Synonyms: protestant, religionnaire

2. (derogatory) misbeliever

   Synonyms: impie, mécréant

• “parpaillot” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
• “parpaillot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.