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)