Cloots

American  

[klohts] / kloʊts /

noun

1. Jean Baptiste du Val-de-Grâce Baron de Anacharsis Clootz, 1755–94, Prussian leader in the French Revolution.

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Example Sentences

Discourse pronounced in the convention by Anacharsis Cloots, on universal fraternity.

From Historical Epochs of the French Revolution With The Judgment And Execution Of Louis XVI., King Of France And A List Of The Members Of The National Convention, Who Voted For And Against His Death by Randolph, Francis

Yet Cloots saw now with transfixing clarity that he did not know him in the least—could never have known him.

From Where the Pavement Ends by Russell, John

I presume Clarence Hervey stands at this instant, in your imagination, as the representative of all the gentlemen in England; and he, instead of Anacharsis Cloots, is now, to be sure, l'orateur du genre humain.

From Tales and Novels — Volume 03 by Edgeworth, Maria

There were but two, Anacharsis Cloots and myself; and I saw I was particularly pointed at by Bourdon de l'Oise, in his speech on that motion.

From Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 4 (1794-1796): the Age of Reason by Conway, Moncure Daniel

She was not Mah Soung, of course—though Cloots wiped a brow gone damp and chill.

From Where the Pavement Ends by Russell, John