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cordon sanitaire
[ French kawr-dawn sa-nee-ter ]
noun
- a line around a quarantined area guarded to prevent the spread of a disease by restricting passage into or out of the area.
- a group of neighboring, generally neutral states forming a geographical barrier between two states having aggressive military or ideological aims against each other.
cordon sanitaire
/ kɔrdɔ̃ sanitɛr /
noun
- a guarded line serving to cut off an infected area
- a line of buffer states, esp when protecting a nation from infiltration or attack
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of cordon sanitaire1
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of cordon sanitaire1
Example Sentences
And as soon as the more mainstream parties start giving up the 'firewall' or cordon sanitaire the far-right will start cannibalising the right.
That’s why counties like Los Angeles have kept up vigilant monitoring and fly-murdering programs, sometimes with new tools, to protect the state’s agricultural cordon sanitaire from Napa and Sonoma to the Mexican border.
When it comes to far-right inroads in European politics, analysts sometimes invoke the French phrase cordon sanitaire, which originally referred to the boundaries of a quarantine zone during an outbreak of infectious disease.
RN leader Marine Le Pen told French radio that "it was urgent to establish a cordon sanitaire" between the parties.
"Cordon sanitaire" is a term used by some political parties to reject cooperation with movements viewed as too extreme.
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