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Definition of Cagots
1. cagot [n] - See also: cagot
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cagots
Literary usage of Cagots
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Miscellanies by William R. Williams (1850)
"APPENDIX,- THE cagots OF FRANCE. FROM the travels, which, under the assumed ...
So sedulously do the cagots keep apart from the ie»t of their fellow-men, ..."
2. Curious Questions in History, Literature, Art, and Social Life: Designed as by Sarah Hutchins Killikelly (1900)
"THE cagots OF THE PYRENEES. The natives of the Pyrenees shake their heads when
asked, Who are the cagots ? And well they may, for who will ever solve the ..."
3. Ceylon: An Account of the Island Physical, Historical and Topographical by Sir James Emerson Tennent (1859)
"The origin of either race is alike obscure, and it remains uncertain whether the
cagots were extruded from human sympathy and association as the descendants ..."
4. The Popular Science Monthly (1888)
"Another conjecture, which was partly held to by the cagots themselves, ...
Moreover, the cagots were in existence as a despised race more than two hundred ..."
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