Cordelier

American  

[kawr-dl-eer] / ˌkɔr dlˈɪər /

noun

1. a Franciscan friar: so called from the knotted cord worn as a girdle.

2. Cordeliers, a political club in Paris that met at an old Cordelier convent at the time of the French Revolution.

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Cordelier British  

/ ˌkɔːdɪˈlɪə /

noun

1. RC Church a Franciscan friar of the order of the Friars Minor

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Etymology

Origin of Cordelier

1350–1400; < Middle French; replacing Middle English cordeler. See cordelle, -er ²

Example Sentences

On one of the lowest terraces of hell, says Dante, he found a Cordelier, who had been dragged thither by a logical demon, in defiance of the expostulations of St. Francis.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by

Meantime, on Sunday, August 21st, a Cordelier, by name Brother Joconde, entered the town.

From The Merrie Tales of Jacques Tournebroche And Child Life in Town and Country by Allinson, A. R. (Alfred Richard)

Now the letters are a verbal acrostic of P�re Mansuete a Cordelier Friar, and a syllabic acrostic of PortsMouth and ChifFinch.

From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II by Smith, David Eugene

The Cordelier thereupon bowed down his large bald head, and raising his fettered hands towards the roof of the cellar muttered in a low voice the funeral invocation of the dying.

From The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century by Sue, Eug?ne

He had exhibited in the numbers of the Vieux Cordelier almost a disregard of the death which he must have known hovered over him.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" by Various