Cordon

The cordon ( French cordon , 'ribbon', 'cord') is the cord or ribbon on which a medal hangs, e.g. B. the great cordon for the grand cross . In a figurative sense, the term is used for a formation or barricade made up of things or people that surround, protect or seal off an object or place or people ("police cordon"):

• Cordon (fortress) , an elongated system of fortresses

Surnames

• Bernardo Kordon (1915–2002), Argentine writer
• Fridolin (Frido) Moritz Kordon (1869–1944), Austrian writer and alpinist
• Klaus Kordon (* 1943), German writer in the field of children's and youth literature
• Renate Kordon (* 1952), Austrian visual artist

places

• Kordon (Ukraine) , village in Odessa Oblast in southern Ukraine

See also

• Cordon
• Cordon sanitaire , political term for the Eastern European states created after the First World War
• Kordon (road construction) , a system of counting stations for traffic registration
• Cordon point, see Ankogel group

Wiktionary: Kordon  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

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