Cloots

jean baptiste du val-de-grâce
[zhahn ba-teest dy val duh-grahs] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist dü val dəˈgrɑs/ (show ipa), baron de (“anacharsis clootz”) 1755–94, prussian leader in the french revolution.
a cloven hoof; one of the divisions of the cloven hoof of the swine, sheep, etc.
(usually initial capital letter). often, cloots. satan; the devil.
historical examples

cloots reckoned that he had perhaps five minutes before the stated limit.
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a friend of cloots he suffered with him on the scaffold, 24 march, 1794.
a biographical dictionary of freethinkers of all ages and nations joseph mazzini wheeler

cloots stepped into the chapel for no purpose, in mere idle discernment of color and contrast.
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cloots arrived as a confident and more or less truly appreciative observer of all these details.
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the doctor sought no further comments on cloots—that was quite sufficient and might serve for an epitaph.
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cloots had taken the measure of him months before and once for all, he would have said, in his smoky little village.
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the young cloots, heir to a great fortune, was sent at eleven years of age to paris to complete his education.
encyclopaedia britannica, 11th edition, volume 6, slice 5 various

yet cloots saw now with transfixing clarity that he did not know him in the least—could never have known him.
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cloots had fallen back to the wall with sagging jaw, with eyes fixed and starting in their sockets.
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and in fact it became clear to cloots that this affair would have to be solved on the spot.
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