Crossword Leak
Crossword Solver
Find Word
Word Meaning
Find the meaning or definition of a english word
Submit
Meaning of "jacobin" and the crossword clue
- A Dominican friar; -- so named because, before the French Revolution, that order had a convent in the Rue St. Jacques, Paris.
- One of a society of violent agitators in France, during the revolution of 1789, who held secret meetings in the Jacobin convent in the Rue St. Jacques, Paris, and concerted measures to control the proceedings of the National Assembly. Hence: A plotter against an existing government; a turbulent demagogue.
- A fancy pigeon, in which the feathers of the neck form a hood, -- whence the name. The wings and tail are long, and the beak moderately short.
- Same as Jacobinic.
Latest view
blue veined
get the axe
gneissoid
hideousness
alouatte
slape
ophiophagous
gaviae
petunse
issued
squel
pinhold
censures
under sail
shirts
tilde
protecting
seek no further
driftway
barkless
Popular word
team player
femalesherlock
go sour
banquetter
eatsat
macruroid
decalog
palmette
prediction
be in the same boat
cappotto
fullscale
converged
tactual
feminine
feuilleton
detective
knurl
answer
route
Random word
Squirter
Slacken
Regalia
Bestead
Ripple
Udal
Improvable
Lexicographical
Thimblerig
Aculeate
Dreary
Facility
Translucently
Waive
Air
Marinate
Bewailer
Academial
Impiety
Clang