HUGUENOT

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• HUGUENOT (noun)
  The noun HUGUENOT has 1 sense:

1. a French Calvinist of the 16th or 17th centuries

  Familiarity information: HUGUENOT used as a noun is very rare.

• HUGUENOT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A French Calvinist of the 16th or 17th centuries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Huguenot" is a kind of...):

Calvinist; Genevan (an adherent of the theological doctrines of John Calvin)

 Context examples 

His remaining behind and his French name were really the only two points which could suggest suspicion; but, as a matter of fact, I did not begin work until he had gone, and his people are of Huguenot extraction, but as English in sympathy and tradition as you and I are.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)