cordonn.

/ˈkɔːdən/

Forms: Also 1500s cordone, 1700s cordoon.

Etymology: < French cordon, derivative of corde cord n.¹; = Italian cordone, Spanish cordon, Provençal cordo: in Italian an augmentative, in French also diminutive. The earliest form in English appears to have been cordone from Italian; but this was soon superseded by the French.

1. Fortification. A course of stones along the line of junction of the rampart and parapet, or forming the coping of the escarp or inner wall of the ditch.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > earthwork or rampart > [noun] > course of stones on rampart

cordon1598

1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres v. 127 The ditch..to be made so deep, and cast vp so high, that it should couer the wall, at least vnto the Cordone.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Cordon..In Fortification, a row of stones..set between the Wall of the Fortress that lies a-slope and the Parapet which stands upright; serving for an Ornament in Defences made of Masons-work.

1782 Siege of Aubigny 60 Humieres..had already gained the cordon of the rampart.

1859 F. A. Griffiths Artillerist's Man. (1862) 261 The Cordon is a semicircular projection of stone..placed at the top of the slope of the revetment of the escarp.

2. Architecture. A string-course, or projecting band of stone, usually flat, on the face of a wall.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > moulding > string-course or -moulding

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1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Cordon..In Architecture, a Plinth, or edge of Stone on the out-side of a Building.

1739 C. Labelye Short Acct. Piers Westm. Bridge 36 The Masons set the last Stone of the Torus or Cordon.

1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss. 957 Cordon, the edge of a stone on the outside of a building.

a. Military. A line of troops composed of men placed at detached intervals, to prevent passage to or from the guarded area; a chain of military posts. Also attributive, as in cordon system, cordon duty.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > defence > [noun] > defensive boundary or cordon

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society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > formation > [noun] > cordon

cordon1759

1759 Ann. Reg. 1758 373/2 If [our officers] order us to form a line, we can do it; but if they call that line a Cordon, we must be obliged to apply to the Chaplain for a Denouement of the mysterious word.

1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 754 These troops..are dispersed at posts placed at proper distances on a Cordon, surrounding the colony on the land side.

1817 C. W. Wynn in Parl. Deb. 1st Ser. 35 356 A cordon of troops had been stationed on the banks of the river to intercept any communication.

1877 Field Exercise Infantry (rev. ed.) 314 There are two systems of outposts, viz. the Cordon system, and the patrol system.

b. transferred. A continuous line or circle of persons round any person or place.

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1854 ‘M. Harland’ Alone xxiv He attached himself to Mrs. Read's cordon of admirers.

1883 R. Gower My Reminisc. II. xxii. 70 A large crowd..kept back by a cordon of police.

c. figurative.

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1792 E. Burke Corr. (1844) IV. 21 They propose that all Europe shall form a cordon to hedge in the cuckoo.

1868 M. E. Grant Duff Polit. Surv. 212 To draw round it a cordon, and to allow..no rival near the throne.

1879 W. F. Stevenson in Good Words Mar. 158 Foreigners who have been excluded by the strictest cordon ever drawn.

4. A guarded line between infected and uninfected districts, to prevent intercommunication and spread of a disease or pestilence, literal and figurative. Called also sanitary cordon, cordon sanitaire.

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the world > health and disease > [noun] > good health > state of being conducive to > non-infectious condition > quarantine

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society > authority > power > [noun] > powerful person or body > powerful state or nation > territory separating

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1826 J. S. Mill in Westm. Rev. 6 264 If a cordon against the ordinary plague is an expedient measure, etc.

1847 in Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang.

1857 C. Kingsley Two Years Ago I. Introd. p. iv Leave us to draw a cordon sanitaire round the tainted states, and leave the system to die a natural death.

1861 G. A. Spottiswoode in F. Galton Vacation Tourists & Trav. 1860 89 A sanitary cordon as a protection from the plague may have mitigated the ravages of this scourge in Eastern Europe.

1885 Manch. Examiner 10 June 4/6 They will establish cordons and lazarettos in order to insure the complete isolation of all infected towns.

1920 Punch 7 Jan. 5/1 Los Angeles..is suffering from an unprecedented crime wave. A proposal by President Carranza to draw a cordon sanitaire round the place has not yet reached Washington.

1940 B. Ward Russian Foreign Policy 7 Thus the Allies succeeded in creating a cordon sanitaire of buffer-states to cut Communism off from Europe.

1964 S. Hall & P. Whannel Pop. Arts ii. vii. 191 The school..believes it is drawing a cordon sanitaire around the imagination of the young reader.

1968 Internat. Encycl. Soc. Sci. IV. 211/1 A cordon sanitaire is a territory separating two powers who if they combined in a single land mass might constitute a threat to other nations.

a. An ornamental cord or braid forming a part of costume. Also, the cord worn by Franciscans.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > trimmings or ornamentation > ribbon or braid

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galloon-lace1611

society > faith > artefacts > monastic garb > items of attire > [noun] > cord

cordon1578

1578 in T. Thomson Coll. Inventories Royal Wardrobe (1815) 219 Lang slevis with silver pasmentis and small cordonis of silvir and blew silk.

1605 E. Sandys Relation State of Relig. sig. B3 All Lay brethren and sisters that did weare Saint Francis Cordon.

1628 Z. Boyd Last Battell Soule (1629) 960 What are such cuts and cordons, silkes and satins..but infallible tokens of an unsanctified heart?

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. (1682) ix. 367 This done he knitteth the Cordon of the Cloak about him.

1661 S. Morgan Sphere of Gentry i. i. 4 Ordinary Jews had the cordons or binders of their fringes of this colour.

1842 A. Strickland Lives Queens of England I. 28 Unconsciously tied and untied the rich cordon that fastened his cloak several times.

1869 J. E. Cussans Handbk. Heraldry (rev. ed.) xviii. 230 The Mantle [of the Order of the Garter]..is fastened by a rich white cordon, with large tassels, which extend to about the middle of the body.

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b. Heraldry. An ornamental cord accompanying the shield of an ecclesiastical dignitary.

6. A ribbon, usually worn scarfwise, as part of the insignia of a knightly order. [Either confessedly French /kɔrdɔ̃/ or a Gallicism, the English equivalent being ribbon n.] grand cordon: that distinguishing the highest class or grade of such an order. blue cordon (French cordon bleu): the sky-blue ribbon worn by the Knights-grand-cross of the French order of the Holy Ghost, the highest order of chivalry under the Bourbon kings; hence extended to other first-class distinctions: cf. blue ribbon n. and adj. These and similar names are also applied to the wearers of the insignia, and by extension to other persons of distinction; cordon bleu, jocularly or familiarly, a first-class cook; also attributive and quasi-adj.

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society > society and the community > social class > symbol of rank > [noun] > insignia of order > specific insignia of knightly order

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O.M.1903

M.B.E.1917

OBE1917

the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > cook > [noun] > first class cook

cordon bleu1826

the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > [adjective] > cooked > cooked to high standard

cordon bleu1959

1727 P. Longueville Hermit 255 He meets with several Noblemen, some with a blew Cordoon.

1769 H. Walpole Let. 17 Sept. (1941) X. 292 Everybody rushes in, Princes of the blood, cordons bleus, abbés, housemaids.

1787 A. Young Jrnl. 27 May in Trav. France (1792) i. 9 The ceremony of the day was, the King's investing the Duke of Berri..with the cordon blue.

1826 M. Kelly Reminisc. (ed. 2) II. 83 His chief French cook..was a great artist, a real cordon bleu.

1829 R. Southey Pilgrim to Compostella iv, in All for Love 175 For in his family, and this The Corporation knew, It rightly would be valued more Than any cordon bleu.

1836 T. Hook Gilbert Gurney III. 62 Cordons, as they call them..the things they wear over their shoulders with the Garter, Bath, Thistle and St. Patrick.

1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. xxxv. 343 ‘How good this is!’ said Popjoy, good-naturedly. ‘You must have a cordon bleu in your kitchen.’

1863 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea I. xiv. 219 He suffered himself to be publicly stripped of his grand cordon of the Legion of Honour.

1959 Good Food Guide 266 The wife's cooking is described by a member as ‘Cordon Bleu’.

1960 Times 9 Jan. 11/3 She had many requests to combine ‘Cordon Bleu’ cooking with flower arrangement, but..arranged..a separate ‘Cordon Bleu’ cookery school.

1963 Economist 30 Nov. 931/1 To help the blue stocking..to turn into a cordon bleu.

7. Horticulture. A fruit tree made by pruning to grow as a single stem (usually as an espalier or wall tree). Hence cordon-trained, cordon tree.

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the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > cultivated or valued > [noun] > fruit-tree > wall-tree or standard

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1878 W. Robinson Parks & Gardens Paris (ed. 2) 280 A cordon means a tree confined to a single stem, that stem being furnished with spurs, or..little fruiting branches nailed in.

1878 W. Robinson Parks & Gardens Paris (ed. 2) 417 The U form, or double Cordon, is best suited for a very high wall or fence.

1882 Garden 16 Sept. 264/1 The fruits were all gathered from cordon-trained trees.

1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 22 Oct. 6/1 Pyramid, bush, and cordon trees..that will often with their first year's crop repay their cost.

†8. ‘The twist of a rope’ (Bailey fol. 1730–6).

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

cordonv.

Etymology: < French cordonner, < cordon.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcordon.

†1. transitive. To twist into a cord or rope. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1623 tr. A. Favyn Theater of Honour & Knight-hood ii. vii. 110 This long haire, tressed and cordonned after the Anticke practise.

†2. To ornament with a cordon or braid. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1561 in T. Thomson Coll. Inventories Royal Wardrobe (1815) 148 Item, sevin quaiffis of claith of silvir, cordonit with blak silk.

3. To enclose with, or to cut off with, a cordon (senses 3, 4). Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > surrounding > surround or lie around [verb (transitive)]

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1891 Cosmopolitan Nov. 61/1 Chicago is fairly cordoned by a great chain of mammoth manufacturing plants.

1905 Westm. Gaz. 1 July 11/2 The city blocks are rigorously cordoned by troops.

1905 Westm. Gaz. 1 July 11/2 Within the precincts of the cordoned quarantine harbour section.

1920 Glasgow Herald 15 Mar. The Wilhelmstrasse was at first cordoned off.

1927 Daily Express 11 Feb. 1/3 The building was promptly cordoned off until reinforcements arrived.

1956 Ann. Reg. 1955 210 The Swiss police acted promptly, cordoning off the building.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

单词	cordon
释义	cordonn. /ˈkɔːdən/ Forms: Also 1500s cordone, 1700s cordoon. Etymology: < French cordon, derivative of corde cord n.¹; = Italian cordone, Spanish cordon, Provençal cordo: in Italian an augmentative, in French also diminutive. The earliest form in English appears to have been cordone from Italian; but this was soon superseded by the French. 1. Fortification. A course of stones along the line of junction of the rampart and parapet, or forming the coping of the escarp or inner wall of the ditch. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > earthwork or rampart > [noun] > course of stones on rampart cordon1598 1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres v. 127 The ditch..to be made so deep, and cast vp so high, that it should couer the wall, at least vnto the Cordone. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Cordon..In Fortification, a row of stones..set between the Wall of the Fortress that lies a-slope and the Parapet which stands upright; serving for an Ornament in Defences made of Masons-work. 1782 Siege of Aubigny 60 Humieres..had already gained the cordon of the rampart. 1859 F. A. Griffiths Artillerist's Man. (1862) 261 The Cordon is a semicircular projection of stone..placed at the top of the slope of the revetment of the escarp. 2. Architecture. A string-course, or projecting band of stone, usually flat, on the face of a wall. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > moulding > string-course or -moulding curstable1278 tablec1400 ledgement1435 wreath1677 cordon1706 tablette1723 belt1730 string1809 string-course1825 belt course1830 tablet1830 string-moulding1833 rope border1855 stringing course1861 racecourse1883 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Cordon..In Architecture, a Plinth, or edge of Stone on the out-side of a Building. 1739 C. Labelye Short Acct. Piers Westm. Bridge 36 The Masons set the last Stone of the Torus or Cordon. 1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss. 957 Cordon, the edge of a stone on the outside of a building. 3. a. Military. A line of troops composed of men placed at detached intervals, to prevent passage to or from the guarded area; a chain of military posts. Also attributive, as in cordon system, cordon duty. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > [noun] > defensive boundary or cordon defensive line1632 cordon1759 picket line1847 perimeter1861 society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > formation > [noun] > cordon cordon1759 1759 Ann. Reg. 1758 373/2 If [our officers] order us to form a line, we can do it; but if they call that line a Cordon, we must be obliged to apply to the Chaplain for a Denouement of the mysterious word. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 754 These troops..are dispersed at posts placed at proper distances on a Cordon, surrounding the colony on the land side. 1817 C. W. Wynn in Parl. Deb. 1st Ser. 35 356 A cordon of troops had been stationed on the banks of the river to intercept any communication. 1877 Field Exercise Infantry (rev. ed.) 314 There are two systems of outposts, viz. the Cordon system, and the patrol system. b. transferred. A continuous line or circle of persons round any person or place. ΚΠ 1854 ‘M. Harland’ Alone xxiv He attached himself to Mrs. Read's cordon of admirers. 1883 R. Gower My Reminisc. II. xxii. 70 A large crowd..kept back by a cordon of police. c. figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > surrounding > [noun] > that which surrounds circumscription1578 skirt1617 circumference1643 recinct1654 circumplexion1660 circumambient1682 cincture1715 cordon1792 circus1817 clasp1867 girth1871 circumcincture1884 1792 E. Burke Corr. (1844) IV. 21 They propose that all Europe shall form a cordon to hedge in the cuckoo. 1868 M. E. Grant Duff Polit. Surv. 212 To draw round it a cordon, and to allow..no rival near the throne. 1879 W. F. Stevenson in Good Words Mar. 158 Foreigners who have been excluded by the strictest cordon ever drawn. 4. A guarded line between infected and uninfected districts, to prevent intercommunication and spread of a disease or pestilence, literal and figurative. Called also sanitary cordon, cordon sanitaire. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > [noun] > good health > state of being conducive to > non-infectious condition > quarantine quarantine1649 quarantain1669 cordon1826 isolation1891 purdah1912 society > authority > power > [noun] > powerful person or body > powerful state or nation > territory separating cordon sanitaire1826 1826 J. S. Mill in Westm. Rev. 6 264 If a cordon against the ordinary plague is an expedient measure, etc. 1847 in Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. 1857 C. Kingsley Two Years Ago I. Introd. p. iv Leave us to draw a cordon sanitaire round the tainted states, and leave the system to die a natural death. 1861 G. A. Spottiswoode in F. Galton Vacation Tourists & Trav. 1860 89 A sanitary cordon as a protection from the plague may have mitigated the ravages of this scourge in Eastern Europe. 1885 Manch. Examiner 10 June 4/6 They will establish cordons and lazarettos in order to insure the complete isolation of all infected towns. 1920 Punch 7 Jan. 5/1 Los Angeles..is suffering from an unprecedented crime wave. A proposal by President Carranza to draw a cordon sanitaire round the place has not yet reached Washington. 1940 B. Ward Russian Foreign Policy 7 Thus the Allies succeeded in creating a cordon sanitaire of buffer-states to cut Communism off from Europe. 1964 S. Hall & P. Whannel Pop. Arts ii. vii. 191 The school..believes it is drawing a cordon sanitaire around the imagination of the young reader. 1968 Internat. Encycl. Soc. Sci. IV. 211/1 A cordon sanitaire is a territory separating two powers who if they combined in a single land mass might constitute a threat to other nations. 5. a. An ornamental cord or braid forming a part of costume. Also, the cord worn by Franciscans. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > trimmings or ornamentation > ribbon or braid lace1548 cordon1578 lacing1593 galloon1604 galloon-lace1611 society > faith > artefacts > monastic garb > items of attire > [noun] > cord cordon1578 1578 in T. Thomson Coll. Inventories Royal Wardrobe (1815) 219 Lang slevis with silver pasmentis and small cordonis of silvir and blew silk. 1605 E. Sandys Relation State of Relig. sig. B3 All Lay brethren and sisters that did weare Saint Francis Cordon. 1628 Z. Boyd Last Battell Soule (1629) 960 What are such cuts and cordons, silkes and satins..but infallible tokens of an unsanctified heart? 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. (1682) ix. 367 This done he knitteth the Cordon of the Cloak about him. 1661 S. Morgan Sphere of Gentry i. i. 4 Ordinary Jews had the cordons or binders of their fringes of this colour. 1842 A. Strickland Lives Queens of England I. 28 Unconsciously tied and untied the rich cordon that fastened his cloak several times. 1869 J. E. Cussans Handbk. Heraldry (rev. ed.) xviii. 230 The Mantle [of the Order of the Garter]..is fastened by a rich white cordon, with large tassels, which extend to about the middle of the body. Categories » b. Heraldry. An ornamental cord accompanying the shield of an ecclesiastical dignitary. 6. A ribbon, usually worn scarfwise, as part of the insignia of a knightly order. [Either confessedly French /kɔrdɔ̃/ or a Gallicism, the English equivalent being ribbon n.] grand cordon: that distinguishing the highest class or grade of such an order. blue cordon (French cordon bleu): the sky-blue ribbon worn by the Knights-grand-cross of the French order of the Holy Ghost, the highest order of chivalry under the Bourbon kings; hence extended to other first-class distinctions: cf. blue ribbon n. and adj. These and similar names are also applied to the wearers of the insignia, and by extension to other persons of distinction; cordon bleu, jocularly or familiarly, a first-class cook; also attributive and quasi-adj. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > symbol of rank > [noun] > insignia of order > specific insignia of knightly order the Garterc1350 collar1488 star1602 blue ribbon1607 yellow ribbon1651 red ribbon1652 string1660 green ribbon1672 crossa1684 glory1693 cordon1727 O.M.1903 M.B.E.1917 OBE1917 the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > cook > [noun] > first class cook cordon bleu1826 the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > [adjective] > cooked > cooked to high standard cordon bleu1959 1727 P. Longueville Hermit 255 He meets with several Noblemen, some with a blew Cordoon. 1769 H. Walpole Let. 17 Sept. (1941) X. 292 Everybody rushes in, Princes of the blood, cordons bleus, abbés, housemaids. 1787 A. Young Jrnl. 27 May in Trav. France (1792) i. 9 The ceremony of the day was, the King's investing the Duke of Berri..with the cordon blue. 1826 M. Kelly Reminisc. (ed. 2) II. 83 His chief French cook..was a great artist, a real cordon bleu. 1829 R. Southey Pilgrim to Compostella iv, in All for Love 175 For in his family, and this The Corporation knew, It rightly would be valued more Than any cordon bleu. 1836 T. Hook Gilbert Gurney III. 62 Cordons, as they call them..the things they wear over their shoulders with the Garter, Bath, Thistle and St. Patrick. 1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. xxxv. 343 ‘How good this is!’ said Popjoy, good-naturedly. ‘You must have a cordon bleu in your kitchen.’ 1863 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea I. xiv. 219 He suffered himself to be publicly stripped of his grand cordon of the Legion of Honour. 1959 Good Food Guide 266 The wife's cooking is described by a member as ‘Cordon Bleu’. 1960 Times 9 Jan. 11/3 She had many requests to combine ‘Cordon Bleu’ cooking with flower arrangement, but..arranged..a separate ‘Cordon Bleu’ cookery school. 1963 Economist 30 Nov. 931/1 To help the blue stocking..to turn into a cordon bleu. 7. Horticulture. A fruit tree made by pruning to grow as a single stem (usually as an espalier or wall tree). Hence cordon-trained, cordon tree. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > cultivated or valued > [noun] > fruit-tree > wall-tree or standard standard1625 wall-tree1653 stander1660 espalier1664 wall-fruit1669 mural1684 waller1688 wall1707 cordon1878 spalliard1888 1878 W. Robinson Parks & Gardens Paris (ed. 2) 280 A cordon means a tree confined to a single stem, that stem being furnished with spurs, or..little fruiting branches nailed in. 1878 W. Robinson Parks & Gardens Paris (ed. 2) 417 The U form, or double Cordon, is best suited for a very high wall or fence. 1882 Garden 16 Sept. 264/1 The fruits were all gathered from cordon-trained trees. 1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 22 Oct. 6/1 Pyramid, bush, and cordon trees..that will often with their first year's crop repay their cost. †8. ‘The twist of a rope’ (Bailey fol. 1730–6). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). cordonv. Etymology: < French cordonner, < cordon.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcordon. †1. transitive. To twist into a cord or rope. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1623 tr. A. Favyn Theater of Honour & Knight-hood ii. vii. 110 This long haire, tressed and cordonned after the Anticke practise. †2. To ornament with a cordon or braid. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1561 in T. Thomson Coll. Inventories Royal Wardrobe (1815) 148 Item, sevin quaiffis of claith of silvir, cordonit with blak silk. 3. To enclose with, or to cut off with, a cordon (senses 3, 4). Also figurative. 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Gaz. 1 July 11/2 The city blocks are rigorously cordoned by troops. 1905 Westm. Gaz. 1 July 11/2 Within the precincts of the cordoned quarantine harbour section. 1920 Glasgow Herald 15 Mar. The Wilhelmstrasse was at first cordoned off. 1927 Daily Express 11 Feb. 1/3 The building was promptly cordoned off until reinforcements arrived. 1956 Ann. Reg. 1955 210 The Swiss police acted promptly, cordoning off the building. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1578v.1561
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