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Hu·gue·not    Audio Help   [hyoo-guh-not or, often, yoo-] Pronunciation Key
–noun
a member of the Reformed or Calvinistic communion of France in the 16th and 17th centuries; a French Protestant.
[Origin: 1555–65; < F, perh. b. Hugues (name of a political leader in Geneva) and eidgenot, back formation from eidgenots, Swiss var. of G Eidgenoss confederate, lit., oath comrade]

—Related forms
Hu·gue·not·ic, adjective
Hu·gue·not·ism, noun
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Huguenot Wars: see Religion, Wars of. 
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