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Cricket jargon - the slips cordon is the line of players who stand in catching positions adjacent to the wicketkeeper.
Are they bleu?
I usually only hear this word in the phrase "to cordon off" as in "put ropes around." Surprise: "a chain of posts, or an imaginary line of separation between two armies." (citation in list description)
It was the middle-watch: a fair moonlight; the seamen were standing in a cordon, extending from one of the fresh-water butts in the waist, to the scuttle-butt near the taffrail.
- Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 43