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Coup d'etat   /ku dˈɛtˌæt/   Listen
Coup d'etat

noun
1.
A sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force.  Synonyms: coup, putsch, takeover.





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... wait. The culmination of the long series of conflicts, threats, and exacerbations came before the year was out. On December 2, Louis Napoleon's coup d'etat took place in Paris; and on the following day Palmerston, without consulting anybody, expressed in a conversation with the French Ambassador his approval of Napoleon's act. Two days later, he was instructed by the Prime Minister, in accordance with a letter from the Queen, that it ...
— Queen Victoria • Lytton Strachey
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Words linked to "Coup d'etat" :   Russian Revolution, group action, October Revolution, countercoup


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