2. Verb. (third-person singular of guillotine) ¹
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Definition of Guillotines
1. guillotine [v] - See also: guillotine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Guillotines
Literary usage of Guillotines
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Baroness de Bode, 1775-1803 by William Shakespear Childe-Pemberton (1900)
"... ALARMS 1792 Wagons with guillotines parade the streets in France—Passengers
instantly beheaded if tolerably well dressed—Jourdan head of the criminal ..."
2. The Baroness de Bode, 1775-1803 by William Shakespear Childe-Pemberton (1900)
"... 1792 'Wagons with guillotines parade the streets in France—Passengers instantly
beheaded if tolerably well dressed—Jourdan head of the criminal ..."
3. Europe in Storm and Calm: Twenty Years' Experiences and Reminiscences of an by Edward King (1885)
"The Communists, in searching among the prisons, which they were very fond of
inspecting, found pieces of seventeen guillotines ..."
4. Descriptive Portraiture of Europe in Storm and Calm: Twenty Years by Edward King (1888)
""Come and see, citizens, the promise of La Commune that a reign of terror shall
not be reestablished, at least with guillotines, for it is so easy to be ..."
5. A General History of the Christian Era: For Catholic Colleges and Reading by Anthony Guggenberger (1913)
"There were stationary, traveling, and elegant house guillotines; the latter for the
... The women of the time wore tiny guillotines as earrings aud clasps; ..."
6. My Scrap-book of the French Revolution by Thomas Waters Griffith, Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer (1898)
"At dinner-parties little mahogany guillotines were used as table ornaments, ...
Women wore little gold guillotines in their ears, or as finger-rings, ..."
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