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‖ cagot|kago|
[Fr.; orig. proper name, perh. containing -goth (cf. bigot) of uncertain origin: see Littré.]
Name of an outcast race or caste in southern France; sometimes, like ‘pariah’ etc., applied to other outcasts.
1844L. S. Costello Béarn & Pyrenees II. 262 At one period the Cagots were objects of hatred, from the belief that they were afflicted with the leprosy. 1871Tylor Prim. Cult. I. 104 Many a white man..ascribes power of sorcery to despised outcast ‘races maudites’, Gypsies and Cagots. 1883T. Watts New Hero in Eng. Illust. Mag. English cagots, pariahs, wretches convicted of the original sin of poverty. |