Cordon

Cordon may refer to:

Basic meanings

• Cordon (fashion), a cord (sewing) or braid used as a fastening or ornament
• Cordon (plant), the descriptive term for a particular style of pruning woody plants
• a strip of clay added around the outside of a pot in ceramic technology
• Cordon sanitaire, a line to isolate an area, event or person
• Cordon and search, a military operation
• Kettling, the use of cordons of police to contain a crowd

Geography

• Cordon (Arran), a village on the Isle of Arran
• Cordón, a neighbourhood (barrio) of Montevideo, Uruguay
• Cordon, Haute-Savoie, a commune in France
• Cordon, Isabela, a municipality in the Philippines

Buildings

• Casa del Cordón, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, it is the oldest European stone house in the Americas and probably the first European two-story house.
• Casa del Cordón, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country, Spain

People

• Betty Cordon (1923–2012), American socialite
• Bonnie H. Cordon (born 1964), American Mormon official
• Francoise Cordon (1650s–1716), French actress
• Kevin Cordón (born 1986), Guatemalan badminton player

Other

• Cordón Industrial, a Chilean organ of popular power, direct or workers democracy
• Slips cordon, a formation of slip fielders in cricket
• The Cordon, Romanian film
• Cordon (TV series), a 2014 Belgian TV series

See also

• Cordon Bleu (disambiguation)
• Coridon (disambiguation)