Hu"gue*not (?), n. [F., properly a dim. of Hugues. The name is probably derived from the Christian name (Huguenot) of some person conspicuous as a reformer.] Eccl. Hist.

A French Protestant of the period of the religious wars in France in the 16th century.

 

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