Cordelier

== English == === Etymology === French, related to corde (“rope”), from the girdle of knotted cord worn by the Franciscans. === Noun === Cordelier (plural Cordeliers) A Franciscan (member of the Order of Friars Minor) (historical) A member of the Cordeliers, a French populist club during the French Revolution, which met in an old Cordelier convent in Paris. ==== Translations ==== === References === “Cordelier”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.