The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cordy \Cord"y\ (k[^o]r"d[y^]), a. [Compar. Cordier; superl. Cordiest.] Of, or like, cord; having cords or cordlike parts.
Wikipedia
Cordier is a surname, and may refer to:
- Andrew W. Cordier (1901–1975), American administrator
- Balthasar Cordier (1592–1650), Belgian theologian
- Baude Cordier (c. 1380–before 1440), French composer
- Charles Henri Joseph Cordier (1827–1905), French sculptor
- Douglas Cordier (born 1953), American politician
- Henri Cordier (1849–1925), French historian, author of comments on Travels of Marco Polo
- Henri Cordier (1856-1877), French mountaineer
- John Cordier (1942–2002), Belgian businessman
- Joseph Cordier (1773–?), Acting Governor General of Pondicherry
- Louis Cordier (1777–1861), French geologist and mineralogist
- Mathurin Cordier (1480–1564) (pen name Corderius), French pedagogue
- Michaël Cordier (born 1984), Belgian footballer
- Noëlle Cordier (born 1944), French singer
- Patrick Cordier (1946–1996), French mountaineer
Category:French-language surnames
Usage examples of "cordier".
THE DOWRY The marriage of Maitre Simon Lebrument with Mademoiselle Jeanne Cordier was a surprise to no one.
Mademoiselle Jeanne Cordier had three hundred thousand francs clear in currency, and in bonds payable to bearer.
Benardy, Berryer, de Berset, Basse, Betting de Lancastel, Blavoyer, Bocher, Boissie, de Botmillan, Bouvatier, le Duc de Broglie, de la Broise, de Bryas, Buffet, Caillet du Tertre, Callet, Camus de la Guibourgere, Canet, de Castillon, de Cazalis, Admiral Cecile, Chambolle, Chamiot, Champannet, Chaper, Chapot, de Charencey, Chasseigne, Chauvin, Chazant, de Chazelles, Chegaray, Comte de Coislin, Colfavru, Colas de la Motte, Coquerel, de Corcelles, Cordier, Corne, Creton, Daguilhon, Pujol, Dahirel, Vicomte Dambray, Marquis de Dampierre, de Brotonne, de Fontaine, de Fontenay, Vicomte de Seze, Desmars, de la Devansaye, Didier, Dieuleveult, Druet-Desvaux, A.
Charles Cordier, a professional animal collector who worked for many zoos and museums, followed tracks of the Kakundakari in Zaire in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Once, said Cordier, a Kakundakari had become entangled in one of his bird snares.
I was surprised one warm autumn day after lunch in downtown Greenfield, as I was walking back to campus with my blue blazer slung over my shoulder, to be honked out of my reverie by a huge black Lincoln Navigator that swooshed to the curb next to me and revealed its driver to be the ethereal Naomi Cordier, Associate Professor of Dance, clad, as usual, in something diaphanous and floral.