Partisans

• partisans: (French) a type of lance
  • "Partisane ou pertuisane, forte pique à fer droit et à deux tranchants". ("Partisane or pertuisane, a strong pike with a straight iron head and two edges".
    • Lazare Sainéan, La Langue de Rabelais, Vol.1, p. 72 (Paris 1922)
    • Wikipedia

• partisan: a fighter in a battle; adherent; ally

• partisan: a militant member of a revoltionary party; esp. during the Spanish Civil War for the republican / anti-facist side

• partisan: a later version of the battering ram

• Parisians → Joyce wrote FW in Paris

• artisans

• artists