Definition of Bastinades

1. bastinade [v] - See also: bastinade

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bastinades

basted
bastegh
baster
basters
bastes
bastide
bastides
bastile
bastiles
bastille
bastilles
bastillion
bastillions
bastinade
bastinaded
bastinades (current term)
bastinading
bastinado
bastinadoed
bastinadoes
bastinadoing
bastinados
basting
bastings
bastion
bastioned
bastions
bastirma
bastle
bastles

Literary usage of Bastinades

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Universal Classics Library by Oliver Herbrand Gordon Leigh (1901)
"I saw wealth accumulated in the hands of a few, and the multitude poor and destitute. I have seen all the son of heaven bastinades, for the most trivial ..."

2. French Belles Lettres from 1640 to 1870 ...: Humor, Sentiment, Romance by Prosper Mérimée, Gustave Flaubert, Constantin-François Volney, Alphonse de Lamartine, Scarron (1901)
"I saw wealth accumulated in the hands of a few, and the multitude poor and destitute. I have seen all the son of heaven bastinades, for the most trivial ..."

3. Portraits of the Seventeenth Century, Historic and Literary by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1904)
"... which consists in blackening his face to make a moustache for Sganarelle and devoting his back to the bastinades! Think of it! this man, ..."

4. Portraits of the Seventeenth Century, Historic and Literary by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1904)
"... which consists in blackening his face to make a moustache for Sganarelle and devoting his back to the bastinades! Think of it! this man, ..."

5. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1814)
"her cheeks; and while it was raining and snowing blows, boxes, cuffs, and bastinades on poor Sister Marie, seated on her ..."

6. Pre-Historic Races of the United States of America by John Wells Foster (1887)
"We all directed our eyes thither, and, shocking to relate ! saw our unfortunate countrymen driven by force, cuffs, and bastinades to the place where they ..."

7. ... Characters and Passages from Note-books by Samuel Butler (1908)
"He is as tender of his foreparts as a crocodile is of his belly, but bold enough of his back, which makes him despise kicks and bastinades with wonderful ..."

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