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Webster 1913 Edition
Cordelle
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Cor-delle′
(kôr-dĕl′)
, Noun.
[F., dim. of
corde
cord.] A twisted cord; a tassel.
Halliwell.
Definition 2024
cordelle
cordelle
English
Noun
cordelle (plural cordelles)
- A twisted cord; a tassel.
- 1922, Emerson Hough, The Young Alaskans on the Missouri:
- Because this old town of St. Louis was then only a village, and we just had bought our unknown country of France, and this town was on the eastern edge of it, the gate of it--the gate to the West, it used to be, before steam came, while everything went by keel boat; oar or paddle and pole and sail and cordelle.