jac|o|bin

jac|o|bin «JAK uh bihn», noun.

a breed of the domestic pigeon whose neck feathers form a kind of hood.

╂[< French Jacobine, feminine of Jacobin; see Jacobin]

Jac|o|bin «JAK uh bihn», noun, adjective.

–n.

1. a member of a radical political club organized in 1789 during the French Revolution in the old Convent of Saint James (Jacques) in Paris.

2. an extreme radical, especially in politics.

3. a Dominican friar.

–adj.

1. having to do with the revolutionary Jacobins.

2. extremely radical in politics.

3. of or belonging to the Dominican friars.

╂[< Old French (frere) jacobin Jacobin (friar) < Medieval Latin Jacobinus of James (because the Jacobins' convent was situated near the church of St. Jacques in Paris) < Late Latin Jacōbus; see etym. under Jacobean (Cf. ↑Jacobean)]