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noun
1.
(in the French Revolution) a member of a radical society or club of revolutionaries that promoted the Reign of Terror and other extreme measures, active chiefly from 1789 to 1794: so called from the Dominican convent in Paris, where they originally met.
2.
an extreme radical, especially in politics.
3.
a Dominican friar.
4.
(lowercase) one of a fancy breed of domestic pigeons having neck feathers that hang over the head like a hood.
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Jacobin
early 14c., of the order of Dominican friars whose order built its first convent near the church of Saint-Jacques in Paris. The Revolutionary extremists took up quarters there 1789. Used generically of radicals and reformers since 1793.
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