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Cordelier definition

Cor·de·lier (kôr′də lir′; Fr kō̂r də lyā′)

noun

  1. in France, a member of the Franciscan Observants

  2. Etymology: after the Church of the Cordeliers, Paris, where the meetings were held

    a member of a radical French Revolutionary political club

Etymology: OFr < cordelle (see cordelle): so named from the knotted cord worn as girdle

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