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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
Noun
1. a line of buffer states shielding a country
2. a guarded line isolating an infected area [French, literally: sanitary line]

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I proposed to him and several coworkers in the know that we set up a local "support network," a cordon sanitaire, a group of people who would keep an eye on Tony and of whom he would always be conscious.
CROSSING THE LINE by William de Hothum / Commonweal
The colonial Zimbabwean landscape, as captured by the European gaze, was littered with diseased, dirty and polluted Africans, a portrait that rationalized the apartheid-style cordon sanitaire erected by the white settlers against the alleged social, moral and hygienic threat posed by the colonized Other.
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The terms of the commission for this book (his first) obviously tied his hands, his references curtailed by a cordon sanitaire thrown around the privacy of la maison Hodgkin.
Howard Hodgkin by Shone, Richard / Artforum International
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