Definitions for Cordeliers

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Cordeliers Cor·de·lier

Spelling: [kawr-dl-eer]

IPA: /ˌkɔr dlˈɪər/

Cordeliers is a 10 letter English word.

You can make 605 anagrams from letters in Cordeliers (cdeeilorrs).

Definitions for Cordeliers

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 Cordeliers

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

Examples for Cordeliers

Oliver Maillard, a French divine of the order of cordeliers, died.

Then, 'Out upon the petitioners, the Jacobins and the cordeliers!'

It was made into a church, which at present is served by the cordeliers.

This is M. Danton, a brother-lawyer, President of the cordeliers, of whom you will have heard.

If I am to be taken to a convent, I demand to go to the cordeliers.

From 1791, however, the cordeliers met in a hall in the rue Dauphine.

It was in the Church of the cordeliers that this miracle occurred.

The cordeliers' Church was to serve as the place of conference.

Jacobins and cordeliers no longer strove to gain her support.

The stronghold of the new movement was the Club of the cordeliers.