JACOBIN
\d͡ʒˈakəbˌɪn], \dʒˈakəbˌɪn], \dʒ_ˈa_k_ə_b_ˌɪ_n]\
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Same as Jacobinic.
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A Dominican friar; - so named because, before the French Revolution, that order had a convent in the Rue St. Jacques, Paris.
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A fancy pigeon, in which the feathers of the neck form a hood, - whence the name. The wings and tail are long, and the beak moderately short.
By Oddity Software
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Same as Jacobinic.
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A Dominican friar; - so named because, before the French Revolution, that order had a convent in the Rue St. Jacques, Paris.
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A fancy pigeon, in which the feathers of the neck form a hood, - whence the name. The wings and tail are long, and the beak moderately short.
By Noah Webster.
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One of an order of monks, so named from their orig. establishment in the Rue St. Jacques (St James's Street), Paris; one of a society of revolutionists in France, so called from their meeting in a Jacobin convent: a demagogue: a hooded pigeon.
By Daniel Lyons
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