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Hu·gue·not (hyo̵̅o̅gə nät′)

noun

any French Protestant of the 16th or 17th cent.

Etymology: MFr, orig., supporter of group in Geneva opposing annexation to Savoy: altered (after Hugues Besançon, leader of the group) < earlier eidgnot < Ger eidgenosse, a confederate, ally: name later applied to Protestants in reference to the Calvinist Reformation in Geneva

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