Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of an outcast race inhabiting the French and Spanish Pyrenees, of remote but unknown origin.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One of a race inhabiting the valleys of the Pyrenees, who until 1793 were political and social outcasts (Christian Pariahs). They are supposed to be a remnant of the Visigoths.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun historical A member of a persecuted
minority in south-western France.
Etymologies
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From French cagot.
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Examples
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The figures which flitted near, pausing, occasionally, to inspect my work, habited, as they were, in the long cloak and _capuchon_ of the country, might well have passed for contemporaries of the superstitious fear which excluded the unfortunate victims of disease from an equality of rights with their fellow-men; but the cagot himself is no longer visible.
Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre Louisa Stuart Costello 1834
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_cagot_ and a _souteneur de soutanes_; and not until the Commune did the
My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71 Ernest Alfred Vizetelly 1887
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