republican marriages
republican marriages is the plural of republican marriage.
Meaning of republican marriage
Noun
republican marriage (countable and uncountable, plural republican marriages)
- An alleged form of execution during the French Revolution in which a man and woman were tied together naked, exposed to public view for a time in this condition, and then stabbed, shot, or thrown into a body of water to drown.
- A Revolutionary Tribunal was established [at Nantes ], of which [Jean Paul] Carrier was the presiding demon—Carrier, known in all nations as the inventor of that last of barbarous atrocities, the Republican Marriage, in which two persons of different sexes, generally an old man and an old woman, or...1850, Archibald Alison, Edward Sherman Gould, History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution in 1789, to the Restoration of the Bourbons in 1815, page 44
Questions about republican marriages
- What is republican marriages the plural of?
- Republican marriages is the plural of republican marriage.
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