dragonnade

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from French dragonnade, from dragon (“dragoon”).

PronunciationEdit

• Rhymes: -eɪd

NounEdit

dragonnade (plural dragonnades)

1. (historical) A policy by Louis XIV to intimidate Huguenots to reconvert to Roman Catholicism.
2. The abandonment of a place to the violence of soldiers.