Huguenot
n.
5MFr, orig., supporter of group in Geneva opposing annexation to Savoy: altered (after Hugues BesanIon, leader of the group) < earlier eidgnot < Ger eidgenosse, a confederate, ally: name later applied to Protestants in reference to the Calvinist Reformation in Geneva6 any French Protestant of the 16th or 17th cent.