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Cordelier   Listen
noun
Cordelier  n.  
1.
(Eccl. Hist.) A Franciscan; so called in France from the girdle of knotted cord worn by all Franciscans.
2.
(Fr. Hist.) A member of a French political club of the time of the first Revolution, of which Danton and Marat were members, and which met in an old Cordelier convent in Paris.





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"Cordelier" Quotes from Famous Books



... Sunday, August 21st, a Cordelier, by name Brother Joconde, entered the town. He had made pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and was said, like Brother Vincent Ferrier and Brother Bernardino of Sienna, to have enjoyed by the abounding grace of God many revelations anent ...
— The Merrie Tales Of Jacques Tournebroche - 1909 • Anatole France
... beau il perd sa beaute. Les biens de la fortune passe comme la lune. Ville qui parle, femme qui escoute, I'vne se prend, lautre se foute. Coudre le peau du renard, a celle du lyon. Il a la conscience large comme la manche d'vn cordelier. Brusler la chandelle par les deux bouts. Bon bastard c'est d'avanture, meschant c'est la nature. Argent content portent medecine. Bonne renommee vaut plus que ...
— Bacon is Shake-Speare • Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence


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