Definitions for Cordelier

Cordelier Cor·de·lier

Spelling: [kawr-dl-eer]
IPA: /ˌkɔr dlˈɪər/

Cordelier is a 9 letter English word.

You can make 287 anagrams from letters in Cordelier (cdeeilorr).

Definitions for Cordelier

noun

  1. a Franciscan friar: so called from the knotted cord worn as a girdle.
  2. Cordeliers, a political club in Paris that met at an old Cordelier convent at the time of the French Revolution.

Origin of Cordelier

1350-1400; Middle French; replacing Middle English cordeler. See cordelle, -er2

Examples for Cordelier

If the Amant rendu Cordelier be his, he too appears among those who jest at the follies and extravagance of love.

He was in constant fear of being poisoned, and had his food prepared by a Cordelier lay-brother.

As I had hoped, the gate was thrown open before the Cordelier.

No doubt some city gate would be opened to the Cordelier's band.

Madam, said she, did you not observe that fine young Cordelier, who brought the Box?

The Emperor lost Belgrad; Mahomet lost an eye, and the Cordelier was canonized.

The magazine of the Cordelier was reached, and she and the Regent went up into the air together.

One priest there is in Compiègne who takes no keep of his life, a Cordelier.

Charles had about him ‘an Irish Cordelier,’ one Kelly, whom he employed as a secretary.

The Cordelier was as glad of that as a man who has stalked a covey of partridges.

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