Cordelier
Americannoun
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a Franciscan friar: so called from the knotted cord worn as a girdle.
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Cordeliers, a political club in Paris that met at an old Cordelier convent at the time of the French Revolution.
noun
Etymology
Origin of Cordelier
1350–1400; < Middle French; replacing Middle English cordeler. See cordelle, -er 2
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As I had hoped, the gate was thrown open before the Cordelier.
From The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century by Eug?ne Sue
"Was it I, perchance, who committed the acts that you are seeking to avenge?" howled the Cordelier.
From The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century by Eug?ne Sue
The frightened Cordelier monks may carry on their ceremonies without terror, or the aid of soldiery.
From Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family by Elizabeth Rundle Charles
The Jacobin and Cordelier teachers, moreover, had exhausted much life from the university; but its fame continued, and Luther in his early conflicts with the papacy appealed against the pope to the university of Paris.
From The Story of Paris by Katherine Kimball
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
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