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cagot

(ˈkɑːɡəʊ; French kɑɡo)

a member of a class of French outcasts who lived in the West Pyrenees, Béarn, Brittany, and Gascony, considered to be lepers and heretics

[C19: from French, of uncertain origin]

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Here he met an Irish actor and aspiring playwright called Edmund O' Rourke who was using the stage name of Edmund Falconer and whose play The Cagot enjoyed a moderate success in Dillon's 1856-57 season.

FREDERICK BALSIR CHATTERTON AND THE CRITICS

Mademoiselle Odile Ricau, age sixteen, and her fourteen-year-old brother, Greluchon, are newly-orphaned Cagots who, after fleeing the site of their parents' murders, arrived in Paris in search of shelter and sustenance.