jacobin
Jacobin is a 7 letter word which starts with the letter J and ends with the letter N for which we found 4 definitions.
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| (n.) A Dominican friar; -- so named because before the French Revolution that order had a convent in the Rue St. Jacques Paris. |
| (n.) One of a society of violent agitators in France during the revolution of 1789 who held secret meetings in the Jacobin convent in the Rue St. Jacques Paris and concerted measures to control the proceedings of the National Assembly. Hence: A plotter against an existing government; a turbulent demagogue. |
| (n.) A fancy pigeon in which the feathers of the neck form a hood -- whence the name. The wings and tail are long and the beak moderately short. |
| (a.) Same as Jacobinic. |
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