Huguenot
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adjective
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Etymology
Origin of Huguenot
1555–65; < French, perhaps blend of Hugues (name of a political leader in Geneva) and eidgenot, back formation from eidgenots, Swiss variant of German Eidgenoss confederate, literally, oath comrade
Example Sentences
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The museum, located in the historic home of a 17th-century Huguenot leader, doesn’t have on-site security.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025
Built in 1743, it started life as a French Protestant church serving the Huguenot population, but was shut in 1809 due to a drastic decline in attendance.
From BBC • Mar. 3, 2025
Pickup was at 7, sometimes earlier, and then came the slog of traffic back over the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge to their home, a modest townhouse in the Huguenot neighborhood that Susan had purchased in 2004.
From New York Times • May 13, 2023
The influential historian Jules Michelet, a Huguenot, famously termed Catherine "the maggot from Italy's tomb."
From Salon • Sep. 26, 2022
And Mistress Genings, whose mother was a French Huguenot, said, "Amen!"
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.
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