noyade
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/nwaˈjaːd/
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/nwaˈjaːd/ (UK) · /nwɑˈjɑd/ (US)
Definition of noyade
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(historical)A murder by drowning, especially one of those carried out during the French Reign of Terror.
“By degrees, daylight itself witnesses Noyades: women and men are tied together, feet and feet, hands and hands; and flung in: this they call Mariage Républicain, Republican Marriage.”
“Alongside this, there were the infamous noyades: perhaps 2,000 alleged counter-revolutionaries strapped in to barges were towed into the river Loire where the barges were scuppered, leaving the victims to drown.”
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noun
-
(historical)A murder by drowning, especially one of those carried out during the French Reign of Terror.
“By degrees, daylight itself witnesses Noyades: women and men are tied together, feet and feet, hands and hands; and flung in: this they call Mariage Républicain, Republican Marriage.”
“Alongside this, there were the infamous noyades: perhaps 2,000 alleged counter-revolutionaries strapped in to barges were towed into the river Loire where the barges were scuppered, leaving the victims to drown.”
verb
- (historical, nonce-word, obsolete)To murder by drowning, especially during the French Reign of Terror.
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Etymology
From French noyade.
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