Cordelier

American  

[kawr-dl-eer] / ˌkɔr dlˈɪər /

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.

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Cordelier British  

/ ˌkɔːdɪˈlɪə /

noun

1. RC Church a Franciscan friar of the order of the Friars Minor

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Etymology

Origin of Cordelier

1350–1400; < Middle French; replacing Middle English cordeler. See cordelle, -er ²

Example Sentences

If heaven is just," said Diana, "it will yet place the Huguenot bandit face to face with the Cordelier Herv�.

From The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century by Sue, Eug?ne

The Cordelier took his seat at the supper-table just laid by Dorothy, this being an easy and dainty style of work in which that young lady condescended to employ her delicate hands.

From For the Master's Sake A Story of the Days of Queen Mary by Petherick, Horace

Now the letters are a verbal acrostic of P�re Mansuete a Cordelier Friar, and a syllabic acrostic of PortsMouth and ChifFinch.

From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II by Smith, David Eugene

The Cordelier thereupon bowed down his large bald head, and raising his fettered hands towards the roof of the cellar muttered in a low voice the funeral invocation of the dying.

From The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century by Sue, Eug?ne

He was as different from old Father Dan, the Cordelier, as Mistress Flint differed from Mistress Winter.

From For the Master's Sake A Story of the Days of Queen Mary by Petherick, Horace