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cordon sanitaire
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cordon \Cor"don\ (k[^o]r"d[o^]n; F. k[^o]r`d[^o]N"), n. [F., fr. corde. See Cord .] A cord or ribbon bestowed or borne as a badge of honor; a broad ribbon, usually worn after the manner of a baldric, constituting a mark of a very high grade in an honorary ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Cordon sanitaire is a French phrase that, literally translated, means "sanitary cordon". It originally denoted a barrier implemented to stop the spread of disease , such as the Black Death . The term has also often been used in English in a metaphorical ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A barrier (physical or administrative) to prevent the spread of disease. 2 (context by extension English) Any barrier to the spread of anything deemed undesirable.
Usage examples of cordon sanitaire.
Only the trip-wires now, only the trip-wires of the Claymores and they would be through the cordon sanitaire.
And that is why the satellite countries are so invaluable to them as a cordon sanitaire, an insulation against dangerous capitalist influences.
The Americans and South Viets should have withdrawn and established a cordon sanitaire.
They were life as the Pyramids did not know it, so they had passed through the Pyramids' cordon sanitaire, as the Snowflake never could.
And there was always Godel for a theoretical cordon sanitaire, with his demonstration of the true but mechanically improvable proposition.