Huguenot
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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
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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
Older than either St. Philip's or St. Michael's, as an organization, is the Huguenot Church of Charleston.
From Historic Shrines of America Being the Story of One Hundred and Twenty Historic Buildings and the Pioneers Who Made Them Notable by Faris, John T. (John Thomson)
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