noyade

From French noyade.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /nwaˈjaːd/

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:

     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 2003, p. 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.

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

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

• day one, one day, one-day

From noy(er) +‎ -ade.

• IPA^(key): /nwa.jad/

noyade f (plural noyades)

1. drowning

• “noyade” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).