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Definition of: Feuillant
(f·yä′) noun
1. A reformed Cistercian of the order instituted by Jean de la Barrière and approved by the pope in 1586: so called from the monastery of Feuillants in Languedoc.
2. A member of a club of conservative royalists in the French Revolution of 1789: named from the convent of the Feuillants, where it met.
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