Jacobin
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Jacobin may refer to:
- Members of the Jacobin Club, a political group during the French Revolution
- Jacobin (politics) and Jacobinism, pejorative epithets for left-wing revolutionary politics
- The Dominican Order is known as the Jacobins in Paris and in France.
The term is unrelated to Jacobitism and the Jacobean era, both of which are related to the Stuart Dynasty in Great Britain.
Other uses:
- Jacobin (pigeon), a breed of domestic pigeon