republican marriages

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Определение republican marriages в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь: plural form of republican marriage
Republican Marriage: Alternative spelling of republican marriage
republican marriage: A form of human execution used 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 , of which 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 a young man and a young woman, bereft of every kind of clothing, were bound together before the multitude, exposed in a boat in that situation for half an hour or more, and then thrown into the river.

republican marriages

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re·pub·li·can marriages

ripʌblıkın merîcîz

/rēˈpəbləkən ˈmerəʤəz/ /riːˈpʌbləkən ˈmɛrɪʤɪz/

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