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Vaudois   Listen
noun
Vaudois  n.  
1.
An inhabitant, or the inhabitants, of the Swiss canton of Vaud.
2.
A modern name of the Waldenses.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Vaudois" Quotes from Famous Books



... Netherlands and West Indies; secondly, to prevent the union of France and Spain in the person of the Duke of Anjou or his posterity; and, thirdly, to maintain the Protestant religion wherever it was established, including the Vaudois provinces. With these objects, William had exerted his utmost energies to form the grand alliance of England, Austria, and the States-general against France. To these were afterwards added some of ...
— John Deane of Nottingham - Historic Adventures by Land and Sea • W.H.G. Kingston
... peaceable community with no crime proved against them, and guilty of no offense other than that of choosing to differ in opinion from the masses! American school boys read with emotions of horror of the Albigenses, driven, beaten and killed, with a papal legate directing the butchery; and of the Vaudois, hunted and hounded like beasts as the effect of a royal decree; and they yet shall read in the history of their own country of scenes as terrible as these in the exhibition of ...
— The Story of "Mormonism" • James E. Talmage


Words linked to "Vaudois" :   religious order, religious sect


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