Cordelier

(kôr′də lir; Fr kō̂r də lyā)

noun

  1. in France, a member of the Franciscan Observants
  2. Origin: after the Church of the Cordeliers, Paris, where the meetings were held

    a member of a radical French Revolutionary political club

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

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