Cloots

[ klohts ]

noun

1. Jean Bap·tiste du Val-de-Grâce [zhah, n, ba-, teest, d, y, val-d, uh, -, grahs], Baron de Anacharsis Clootz, 1755–94, Prussian leader in the French Revolution.

Example Sentences

Being regulated in an established center can also allow companies access to deeper, more liquid markets and provide greater certainty on securities law, said Ann Sofie Cloots, one of the authors of a Cambridge University study on cryptocurrency regulation.

From Reuters

That could bring clarity to both cryptocurrency companies and related services like banks previously wary of the sector’s unclear legal status, said Cloots.

From Reuters

Gobel was condemned to death, with Chaumette, H�bert and Anacharsis Cloots, and was guillotined on the 12th of April 1794.

From Project Gutenberg

Stirred up by the fanatical baron, “Anacharsis” Cloots, “the apostle of human freedom and the personal enemy of Jesus Christ,” the Archbishop Gobel, now in his sixtieth year, came forward, proclaiming his whole past life a fraud, and owning no other religion than that of freedom.

From Project Gutenberg

I declare the beast is woo to the cloots and the een holes; and afore I get the fleece broken up, the rest will be done.

From Project Gutenberg