单词 | Jacobin |
释义 | Jacobin n.   1. a hist. a member of a radical democratic club established in Paris in 1789 in the old convent of the Jacobins (see sense 2). b any extreme radical.   2. archaic a Dominican friar.   3. (jacobin) a pigeon with reversed feathers on the back of its neck like a cowl. Derivatives Jacobinic adj. Jacobinical adj. Jacobinism n. Etymology: orig. in sense 2 by assoc. with the Rue St Jacques in Paris: ME f. F f. med.L Jacobinus f. eccl.L Jacobus |
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