Cloots

[ klohts ]

/ kloʊts /

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noun

Jean Bap·tiste du Val-de-Grâce

[zhahn ba-teest dy val duh-grahs], /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist dü val dəˈgrɑs/, Baron de "Anacharsis Clootz", 1755–94, Prussian leader in the French Revolution.

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Cloots stepped into the chapel for no purpose, in mere idle discernment of color and contrast.
Where the Pavement Ends|John Russell
"Mah Soung is dead," repeated Cloots, and an echo ran back and forth between the walls with his word.
Where the Pavement Ends|John Russell
Cloots arrived as a confident and more or less truly appreciative observer of all these details.
Where the Pavement Ends|John Russell
Cloots had taken the measure of him months before and once for all, he would have said, in his smoky little village.
Where the Pavement Ends|John Russell

Yet Cloots saw now with transfixing clarity that he did not know him in the least—could never have known him.
Where the Pavement Ends|John Russell