Noyade
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /nwaˈjaːd/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Noyade is a noun meaning (chiefly historical) A murder by drowning, especially one of those carried out during the French Reign of Terror.
Meaning
(chiefly historical) A murder by drowning, especially one of those carried out during the French Reign of Terror.
More Meanings
- (historical, obsolete, nonce word) To murder by drowning, especially during the French Reign of Terror.
Example Sentences
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.
Word Forms
- noyades
- noyading
- noyaded
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include drowning, mitraillade, murder-hole, dead-naming, garrotting, suffocation.
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