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/nwaˈjaːd/ · noun
(chiefly historical) A murder by drowning, especially one of those carried out during the French Reign of Terror..
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.
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Noyade means (chiefly historical) A murder by drowning, especially one of those carried out during the French Reign of Terror..
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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.
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