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Corday

[ kawr-dey ]

noun

  1. Charlotte Maria Anne Charlotte Corday d'Armont, 1768–93, French Revolutionary heroine: assassinated Jean-Paul Marat.


Corday

/ kɔrdɛ /

noun

  1. CordayCharlotte17681793FFrenchPOLITICS: revolutionaryCRIME AND POLICING: assassin Charlotte (ʃarlɔt), full name Marie Anne Charlotte Corday d'Armont. 1768–93, French Girondist revolutionary, who assassinated Marat
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

His wife was taken to the prison of the Abbaye, and given the cell which was to be tenanted, six weeks later, by Charlotte Corday.

In a later century Charlotte Corday was a pupil of the convent.

Charlotte Corday was a reactionist, but she slew Marat and died calmly and bravely.

An immense crowd lined every street through which Charlotte Corday passed.

This extraordinary person was the daughter of M. d'Armont, and she passed into the immortality of history as Charlotte Corday.

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