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cordon sanitaire

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cor·don sa·ni·taire  (kôr-dô sä-n-târ)
n. pl. cor·dons sa·ni·taires (kôr-dô sä-n-târ)
1. A barrier designed to prevent a disease or other undesirable condition from spreading.
2. A chain of buffer states organized around a nation considered ideologically dangerous or potentially hostile.

[French, quarantine line : cordon, line + sanitaire, sanitary.]

cordon sanitaire French [kɔrdɔ̃ sanitɛr]
n
1. (Medicine) a guarded line serving to cut off an infected area
2. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a line of buffer states, esp when protecting a nation from infiltration or attack
[literally: sanitary line]
Translations
cordon sanitaire
n (Med, Pol) → Cordon sanitaire m


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Soldiers and civilian auxiliary forces have put up a cordon sanitaire in the area where the kidnappers brought their victims," Misuari said before he left Jolo for Davao City over the week-end.
For all its robust flavour, the blackcurrant is a delicate shrub, prone to spider mite, leaf spot and aphids, but they'd cut down pesticides and built a cordon sanitaire of hedgerow and grass around each field to promote bird life and insects that feed on insects that would otherwise infest the crop.
His view became the consensus of informed opinion and for the first decades after World War II, artists and critics alike maintained a kind of cordon sanitaire around art that insulated it from agendas of any sort.
 
 
 
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