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
Example Sentences
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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 Sue, Eug?ne
One day, when Louis was at the castle of Hieros, in Provence, a Cordelier friar approached.
From The Boy Crusaders A Story of the Days of Louis IX. by Edgar, John G. (John George)
The Cordeliers were combated by those revolutionists who wished to end the Terror, especially by Danton, and by Camille Desmoulins in his journal Le Vieux Cordelier.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" by Various
In the Regent, Sir William Knevet and 700 men were lost, and in the Cordelier, Sir Pierce Morgan, her captain, and 900 of her crew are supposed to have perished.
From How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 by Kingston, William Henry Giles
The visible sign of their understanding was the appearance in December of the Vieux Cordelier.
From Lectures on the French Revolution by Figgis, John Neville
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