FromFrenchpied noir. SeePied-Noir § Etymology on Wikipedia.
pied noir (pluralpieds noirs)
- Someone ofEuropean origin living inNorth Africa, especiallyAlgeria, underFrench rule, particularly one who wasrepatriated to mainland France after Algerianindependence.[from 1960s]
1977,Alistair Horne,A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published2006, page47:Oran, the second city of Algeria, was even more European than Algiers; in fact, with 300,000pied noir inhabitants to 150,000 Muslims, it was the only centre where they predominated.
SeePied-Noir § Etymology on Wikipedia.
piednoir m (pluralpieds noirs)
- pied noir
