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Cordon

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Cordon may refer to:

Basic meanings

  • Cordon (fashion), a cord (sewing) or braid used as a fastening or ornament
  • Cordon (plant), the descriptive term for a particular style of pruning woody plants
  • a strip of clay added around the outside of a pot in ceramic technology
  • Cordon sanitaire, a line to isolate an area, event or person
  • Cordon and search, a military operation
  • Kettling, the use of cordons of police to contain a crowd

Geography

  • Cordon (Arran), a village on the Isle of Arran
  • Cordón, a neighbourhood (barrio) of Montevideo, Uruguay
  • Cordon, Haute-Savoie, a commune in France
  • Cordon, Isabela, a municipality in the Philippines

Other

  • Cordón Industrial, a Chilean organ of popular power, direct or workers democracy
  • Slips cordon, a formation of slip fielders in cricket
  • The Cordon, Romanian film
  • Cordon (TV series), a 2014 Belgian TV series

See also

  • Cordon Bleu (disambiguation)
  • Coridon (disambiguation)
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