a Franciscan friar of the order of the Friars Minor
Word origin
C19: from Old French cordelle, literally: a little cord, from the knotted cord girdles that they wear
Cordelier in American English
(ˌkɔrdəˈlɪr; French kɔʀdəˈljeɪ)
noun
1.
in France, a member of the Franciscan Observants
2.
a member of a radical French Revolutionary political club
Word origin
OFr < cordelle (see cordelle): so named from the knotted cord worn as girdle; (sense 2) after the Church of theCordeliers, Paris, where the meetings were held