Cagots
.A sort of gipsy race in Gasʹcony and Bearne, supposed to be descendants of the Visigoths, and shunned as something loathsome. (See Caqueux, Colliberts.)
“Cagoti non fuerunt monachi, anachoritæ, aut leprosi; … sed genus quoddam hominum cæteris odiosum. Vasconibus Cagots, nonnullis Capoti, Burdegalentibus Gaheti, Vascis et Navarris Agoti, dicuntur.”—Ducange: Glossarium Manuale, vol. ii. pp. 23, 24.
