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What (who) is Maquis - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Maquis (disambiguation)
maquis
[ma'ki:]
¦ noun (plural same)
1. (the Maquis) the French resistance movement during the German occupation (1940-5).
a member of the Maquis.
2. dense scrub vegetation consisting of hardy evergreen shrubs and small trees, characteristic of coastal regions in the Mediterranean.
Origin
C19: from Fr., 'brushwood', from Corsican Ital. macchia.
Maquis (Star Trek)
FICTIONAL TERRORIST ORGANISATION
Star Trek/Maquis
In the Star Trek science fiction franchise, the Maquis are a 24th-century paramilitary organization-terrorist group (like the World War II Maquis in the French Resistance and the Spanish Maquis that emerged in the Spanish Civil War). The group is introduced in the two-part episode "The Maquis" of the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, building on a plot foundation introduced in the episode "Journey's End" of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and appear in later episodes of those two series as well as Star Trek: Voyager.
maquisard
![''Maquisards'' (Resistance fighters) in the [[Hautes-Alpes]] département in August 1944. Third and fourth from the right are two SOE officers. Second from right is probably [[Christine Granville]].](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Maquis Haute Savoie.jpg?width=200 "''Maquisards'' (Resistance fighters) in the [[Hautes-Alpes]] département in August 1944. Third and fourth from the right are two SOE officers. Second from right is probably [[Christine Granville]].")
WORLD WAR TWO FRENCH RESISTANCE GROUPS.
Maquis (WW2); Maquis (WWII); Maquis (World War II)/; Maquisard
[?mak?'z?:]
¦ noun a member of the Maquis.
Examples of use of Maquis
1. Groundhog Day, it was, transferred to the aromatic maquis above Propriano.
2. Known as Le Préfet du Maquis, he was never actually a prefect, nor did he long remain a Communist, at least in the official sense.
3. Controlling prices for commodities and banning black marketeering in the territory now under his control, Guingouin began to sign his circulars Le Préfet du Maquis.
4. For two and a half years the Maquis in this zone of France was directed by Henry Ingrand, since August 26 Commissioner of the Provisional Government at Clermont Ferrand.
5. We then continue across the island‘s maquis–covered slopes, stealing vertiginous views from the cliff tops, and finding second world war shrapnel, bright yellow Cape Sorrel flowers from Africa and lilac–coloured wild thyme along the way.