Usage examples (10)

• Finding a rate of 200 executions a day insufficient he invented the noyade.
• They were fellow-victims in the noyade of marriage, but if they ceased to struggle perhaps the drowning would be easier for both ...
• It is not easy to give a notion of his conduct in the Convention, without using those emphatic terms, guillotinade, noyade, fusillade, mitraillade.
• The stately bridge was occupied by a throng of people, who swore that the men under whose rule the Loire had been choked with corpses should have full personal experience of...