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