huguenot (n.) A French Protestant of the period of the religious wars
in France in the 16th century.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary📕
huguenot hū′ge-not, or -nō, n. the
name formerly given in France to an adherent of the Reformation. [Prob. a
dim. of the personal name Hugo, Hugon, Hugues, Hugh,
name of some French Calvinist, later a general nickname. Not the Swiss
eidguenot, Ger. eidgenossen, confederates.]
Wikipedia
From the 16th to the 18th century the name Huguenot was discribing a member of the Protestant Reformed Church of France. They are sometimes known as the French Calvinists.
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