cagot

(ˈkɑːɡəʊ; French kɑɡo)

a member of a class of French outcasts who lived in the West Pyrenees, Béarn, Brittany, and Gascony, considered to be lepers and heretics

[C19: from French, of uncertain origin]

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References in periodicals archive

Here he met an Irish actor and aspiring playwright called Edmund O' Rourke who was using the stage name of Edmund Falconer and whose play The Cagot enjoyed a moderate success in Dillon's 1856-57 season.

FREDERICK BALSIR CHATTERTON AND THE CRITICS

Mademoiselle Odile Ricau, age sixteen, and her fourteen-year-old brother, Greluchon, are newly-orphaned Cagots who, after fleeing the site of their parents' murders, arrived in Paris in search of shelter and sustenance.

Reese, James. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mademoiselle Odile

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