CORDELIER

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A Franciscan; -- so called in France from the girdle of knotted cord worn by all Franciscans.

2.
n.

A member of a French political club of the time of the first Revolution, of which Danton and Marat were members, and which met in an old Cordelier convent in Paris.


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