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CORDON (a French derivative of corde,...

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 141 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CORDON (a French derivative of corde, cord)  , a wordusedin many applications of its meaning of "
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line " or " cord," and particularly of a cord of gold or
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silver lace worn in military and other
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uniforms . The word is especially used of the
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sash or ribbon worn by members of an order of
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knighthood,
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crossing from one shoulder to the opposite
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hip . The cordon bleu, the sky-blue ribbon of the knight's
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grand
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cross of the order of the
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Holy Spirit, the highest order of the Bourbon kings of France, was, like the "blue ribbon " of the
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English Garter, taken as a type of the highest
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reward or prize to which any one can attain (see also COOKERY) . In
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heraldry, " cordons " are the ornamental cords which, with the hats to which they are attached, ensign the shields of arms of certain ecclesiastical dignitaries; they are interlaced to form a mesh or network and terminate in rows of tassels . A cardinal's cordon is gules with five rows of fifteen tassels, an archbishop's vest with four rows of ten, and a bishop's also vert, with three rows of six . In architecture a " cordon " is a projecting
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band of stone along the outside of a
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building, a
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string-course . The word is frequently used in a transferred sense of a line of posts or stations to guard an enclosed
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area from unauthorized passage, e.g. a military or police cordon, and especially a sanitary cordon, a line of posts to prevent communication from or with an area infected with disease .

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