dragonnade
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EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from French dragonnade, from dragon (“dragoon”).
PronunciationEdit
- Rhymes: -eɪd
NounEdit
dragonnade (plural dragonnades)
- (historical) A policy by Louis XIV to intimidate Huguenots to reconvert to Roman Catholicism.
- The abandonment of a place to the violence of soldiers.