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Definition of Noyade
1. 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.
Definition of Noyade
1. Noun. (context: chiefly historical) A murder by drowning; especially, one of those carried out during the French Reign of Terror. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Noyade
1. an execution by drowning [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Noyade
Literary usage of Noyade
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tragic Episodes of the French Revolution in Brittany: With Unpublished Documents by G. Lenotre (1912)
"("noyade" of 6th or 7th Nivose-— January 26 or 27, 1793.) P. 25o. 25. Anonymous
narrative published concerning the preceding, given to the world in Brumaire ..."
2. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1907)
"It is the first of the noyade», what we may call ... [J This first noyade may be
charitably ascribed to accident ; but the same excuse cannot be made for ..."
3. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1909)
"Stephens " estimates Carrier's total destruction of Nantes people by fusillade
and noyade at 6000 between October, 1793, and February, 1794, ..."
4. Men of Mark in the World of Sport in New Zealand by Joseph Chadwick (1906)
"The Captain bred noyade, another good one, by Lord of the Isles from Lorelei.
noyade, when placed third in the Auckland Champagne Stake?, ..."
5. The Real French Revolutionist by Henry Lorenzo Jephson (1899)
"There, on the 24th February, a noyade, not with sinking of barge as at Nantes,
but simply throwing, or chucking, overboard into the rapid running river, ..."
6. The Pictorial History of England During the Reign of George the Third: Being by George Lillie Craik, Charles MacFarlane (1843)
"... on the night uf Ihe У-ith Frimaire, had been precipitated into the Loire ;"
К ¡chai d had " executed the orders of the committee in preparing a noyade ..."
7. The Pictorial History of England: Being a History of the People, as Well as by George Lillie Craik, Charles McFarlane (1843)
"... on the ni^ht of the 24th Frimaire, had been precipitated into the Loire;"
Richard had " executed the orders of the committee in preparing a noyade of ..."
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