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

There were but two foreigners in the convention—Anacharsis Cloots and myself.

From Junius Unmasked or, Thomas Paine the author of the Letters of Junius and the Declaration of Independence by Moody, Joel

I meant to take him the tour of Europe, with a proper mixture of siege, battle, and adventure, and to make him finish as Anacharsis Cloots in the French Revolution....

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley

Cloots reckoned that he had perhaps five minutes before the stated limit.

From Where the Pavement Ends by Russell, John

Cloots had taken the measure of him months before and once for all, he would have said, in his smoky little village.

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