Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Huguenot \Hu"gue*not\, n. [F., properly a dim. of Hugues. The
   name is probably derived from the Christian name (Huguenot)
   of some person conspicuous as a reformer.] (Eccl. Hist.)
   A French Protestant of the period of the religious wars in
   France in the 16th century.

Source : WordNet®

Huguenot
     n : a French Calvinist of the 16th or 17th centuries