noyade
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noyade (plural noyades)
- (chiefly historical) A murder by drowning, especially one of those carried out during the French Reign of Terror.
- 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
- 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.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 486:
- 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 edit
noyade (third-person singular simple present noyades, present participle noyading, simple past and past participle noyaded)
- (historical, obsolete, nonce word) To murder by drowning, especially during the French Reign of Terror.
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noyade f (plural noyades)
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- “noyade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.