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Vaudois

Vaudois \Vau*dois\ (v[=o]*dw[aum]"), n. sing. & pl. [F.]

  1. An inhabitant, or the inhabitants, of the Swiss canton of Vaud.

  2. A modern name of the Waldenses.

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Vaudois

Vaudois can refer to:

  • Waldensians, members of a Christian sect also known as Vaudois
  • People who live in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland
    • A Franco-Provençal language dialect spoken in Vaud

Usage examples of "vaudois".

Historians may point out diversities and dissimilarities between the teaching of the Waldenses, the Albigenses, the Henricans, the Poor Men of Lyons, the Cathari, the Vaudois, the Bogomiles, and the Manichees, but they were in reality branches and variants of the same dark fraternity, just as the Third International, the Anarchists, the Nihilists, and the Bolsheviks are in every sense, save the mere label, entirely identical.

Villana and Carmagnola, and detached the marquis de Feuquieres to invest Coni, a strong fortress garrisoned by the Vaudois and French refugees.