Cordon
Appearance
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Cordon may refer to:
Basic meanings
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
Buildings
[edit]- Casa del Cordón, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, it is the oldest European stone house in the Americas and probably the first European two-story house.
- Casa del Cordón, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country, Spain
People
[edit]- Betty Cordon (1923–2012), American socialite
- Bonnie H. Cordon (born 1964), American Mormon official
- Francoise Cordon (1650s–1716), French actress
- Kevin Cordón (born 1986), Guatemalan badminton player
Other
[edit]- 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