cordon

From Middle English cordon, from Middle French cordon, from Old French cordon, diminutive of corde. More at cord.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔː(ɹ)dən/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dən

cordon (plural cordons)

1. (archaic) A ribbon normally worn diagonally across the chest as a decoration or insignia of rank etc. [from 17th c.]
2. A line of people or things placed around an area to enclose or protect it. [from 16th c.]
3. (cricket) The arc of fielders on the off side, behind the batsman: the slips and gully. [from 20th c.]
4. (botany) A woody plant, such as a fruit tree, pruned and trained to grow as a single stem on a support. [from 19th c.]

cordon (third-person singular simple present cordons, present participle cordoning, simple past and past participle cordoned)

1. (transitive) Synonym of cordon off.
   • 1899, William Harding, Dreyfus: the Prisoner of Devil's Island, page 121:

     Strong detachments of infantry instead of gendarmes cordoned the streets leading to the Lycée.

• James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Cordon”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume II (C), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 988, column 2.

• con rod, condor, conrod

Inherited from Old French. By surface analysis, corde (“rope”) +‎ -on (diminutive suffix).

• IPA^(key): /kɔʁ.dɔ̃/

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• Rhymes: -ɔ̃

cordon m (plural cordons)

1. cord (for connecting)

• → Dutch: kordon
  • Sranan Tongo: krodon
• → German: Kordon
• → Ottoman Turkish: قوردون
  • Turkish: kordon
• → Polish: kordon
  • → Russian: кордо́н (kordón)
  • → Ukrainian: кордо́н (kordón)
• → Portuguese: cordão
• → Romanian: cordon
• → Spanish: cordón

• “cordon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

corde (“rope”) +‎ -on (diminutive suffix)

cordon oblique singular, m (oblique plural cordons, nominative singular cordons, nominative plural cordon)

1. bowstring
2. A small piece of rope

• Middle French: cordon
  • French: cordon
    • → Dutch: kordon
      • Sranan Tongo: krodon
    • → German: Kordon
    • → Ottoman Turkish: قوردون
      • Turkish: kordon
    • → Polish: kordon
      • → Russian: кордо́н (kordón)
      • → Ukrainian: кордо́н (kordón)
    • → Portuguese: cordão
    • → Romanian: cordon
    • → Spanish: cordón
  • → Middle English: cordon
    • English: cordon

• “cordon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from French cordon.

cordon n (plural cordoane)

1. belt
2. cord (length of twisted strands)
3. cordon (line of people or things placed around an area to enclose or protect it)

• cordon ombilical

• centură, curea