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English
Etymology
From French noyade.
Pronunciation
Noun
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
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.
Anagrams
French
Etymology
From noy(er) + -ade.
Pronunciation
Noun
noyade f (plural noyades)
- drowning
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