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jaco·bin
\ˈjakəbə̇n sometimes ˈjāk- or jəˈkōb-\ noun
(-s)
Usage: usually capitalized
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, from Medieval Latin Jacobinus, from Late Latin Jacobus St. James, + Latin -inus -ine; from the location of the first Dominican convent in the street of St. James (Rue St.-Jacques) in Paris
1. : dominican
2. [French, from Jacobin Dominican; from the group's having been founded in the Dominican convent in Paris in 1789]
a. : a member of an extremist political group advocating equalitarian democracy and famous for its terrorist policies during the French Revolution of 1789
b. : a political extremist or radical; especially : one that advocates the attainment of equalitarian democracy usually by revolutionary or violent methods
< the children of the Boston Federalists grew up under the impression that Democrats, or Jacobins, as they were called, were repulsive creatures — C.G.Bowers >
3.
a. : a breed of fancy pigeons whose neck feathers are reversed and so form a fluffy hood
b. [French, from Jacobin, Dominican; from the resemblance of the head and neck of such birds to the hood of a Dominican] : a tropical American hummingbird of the genus Florisuga (especially F. mellivora) |