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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Noyade

· No·yade · IPA /nwaˈjaːd/
01 n. A drowning of many persons at once, -- a method of execution practiced at Nantes in France during the Reign of Terror, by Jean Baptiste Carrier.
  1. 1.
    A drowning of many persons at once, -- a method of execution practiced at Nantes in France during the Reign of Terror, by Jean Baptiste Carrier.