noyade

English

Etymology

From French noyade.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /nwaˈjaːd/

Noun

noyade (plural noyades)

1. (chiefly historical) A murder by drowning, especially one of those carried out during the French Reign of Terror.
   • 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):

     By degrees, daylight itself witnesses Noyades: women and men are tied together, feet and feet, hands and hands; and flung in: this they call Mariage Républicain, Republican Marriage.

   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 486:

     Alongside this, there were the infamous noyades: perhaps 2,000 alleged counter-revolutionaries strapped in to barges were towed into the river Loire where the barges were scuppered, leaving the victims to drown.

Verb

noyade (third-person singular simple present noyades, present participle noyading, simple past and past participle noyaded)

1. (historical, obsolete, nonce word) To murder by drowning, especially during the French Reign of Terror.

Anagrams

• Yeadon, day one, one day, one-day

French

Etymology

From noy(er) +‎ -ade.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nwa.jad/

Noun

noyade f (plural noyades)

1. drowning

Further reading

• “noyade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.