- cordonsanitaire
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cor·don sa·ni·taire (kôr-dôɴ' sä-nē-târʹ)
n. pl. cor·dons sa·ni·taires (kôr-dôɴ' sä-nē-târʹ)
1. A barrier designed to prevent a disease or other undesirable condition from spreading.2. A chain of buffer states organized around a nation considered ideologically dangerous or potentially hostile.[French, quarantine line : cordon, line + sanitaire, sanitary.]
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Universalium. 2010.