English Explanatory Dictionary

Cordelier

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A Franciscan (member of the Order of Friars Minor)
  2. A member of the Cordeliers, a French populist club during the French Revolution, which met in an old Cordelier convent in Paris.

Word forms

Cordelier Cordeliers

Etymology

French, related to corde (“rope”), from the girdle of knotted cord worn by the Franciscans.

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