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noyade
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[nwɑːˈjɑːd], (Noun)
Definitions:
- an execution carried out by drowning
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Origin
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early 19th century (referring especially to a mass execution by drowning, carried out in France in 1794): from French, literally ‘drowning’, from the verb noyer, from Latin necare ‘kill without use of a weapon’, later ‘drown’
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