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Webster 1913 Edition

Cordelier

Corˊde-lier′

(kôrˊdē̍-lēr′)
,
Noun.
[F., fr. OF.
cordel
, F.
cordeau
, dim. fr.
corde
string, rope. See
Cord
.]
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.

Webster 1828 Edition

Cordelier

CORDELIER

,
Noun.
A Franciscan friar; one of the order of religious founded by St. Francis; a gray friar. The cordeliers wear a thick gray cloth, a little cowl, a chaperon, and a cloke, with a girdle of rope or cord, tied with three knots.

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