Cordelier

French, related to corde (“rope”), from the girdle of knotted cord worn by the Franciscans.

Cordelier (plural Cordeliers)

1. A Franciscan (member of the Order of Friars Minor)
2. (historical) A member of the Cordeliers, a French populist club during the French Revolution, which met in an old Cordelier convent in Paris.

• “Cordelier”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.