What is "cordons"

Usage examples of "cordons".

Waves of debate crested over his senses, crowding out thoughts of the ghost-girl, and the great cordons of the Hallowed Vasties.

When the cordons themselves collapsed to dust, nothing remained—or so Urban had always believed.

Behind this wave front the cordons first bloomed and then crumbled: internal collapse meeting external strife as the Chenzeme warships appeared from the direction called swan, to harry settlements along the frontier.

Some ladies we may have seen—we who wear stars and cordons, and attend the St.

Snuff-boxes were given away in profusion (as we learned from the Court jeweller, who sold and afterwards bought them again), and bushels of the Order of Saint Michael of Pumpernickel were sent to the nobles of the Court, while hampers of the cordons and decorations of the Wheel of St.

In fact, when you saw Madame de Saint Amour’s rooms lighted up of a night, men with plaques and cordons at the écarté tables, and the women at a little distance, you might fancy yourself for a while in good society, and that Madame was a real Countess.

This time, however, Kirsh Valentin stood in the place of honor at Anak's left hand, clad in dress blacks with a chest full of medals and gold cordons looping down from his right epaulette.

He was also dressed in the black uniform of a League Controller, but flaunted the black and red cordons of high League officialdom draped from his right shoulder.

They just stood behind the cordons the National Guard had set up, still and silent, regarding the proceedings with flat remorseless eyes.

A cluster of the living, maybe a couple hundred strong, had been herded onto the lawn before the bandstand—a token crowd of warm bodies for the television cameras—but I couldn't help thinking that Burton's true constituency waited beyond the cordons, still and silent and unutterably patient, the melting pot made flesh: folk of every color, race, creed, and age, in every stage of decay that would allow them to stand upright.

A cluster of the living, maybe a couple hundred strong, had been herded onto the lawn before the bandstand -- a token crowd of warm bodies for the television cameras -- but I couldn't help thinking that Burton's true constituency waited beyond the cordons, still and silent and unutterably patient, the melting pot made flesh: folk of every color, race, creed, and age, in every stage of decay that would allow them to stand upright.

Regular features of the time: neatly swept-up piles of glass, litter of stone and splinters of flint, smell of escaping gas, knots of sightseers waiting at the cordons where there are unexploded bombs.

If the possessed are outside the marine cordons, then we’ve already lost Mortonridge.

Someone will inevitably get through the police cordons, and you’ll be back in the same leaky boat.

All around the police cordons and beyond, there were other news crews and photographers also calling it a day, loading equipment into vans, litter blowing about their feet.