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Cor⋅de⋅lier

[kawr-dl-eer]
–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:
1350–1400; < MF; r. ME cordeler. See cordelle, -er 2
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