Associations to the word «Cordeliers»

Wiktionary

CORDELIER, noun. A Franciscan.
CORDELIER, noun. (historical) A member of a French populist club during the French Revolution, which met in an old Cordelier convent in Paris.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats