Definition of "noyade" [‖No•yade]

• A murder by drowning; especially, one of those carried out during the French Reign of Terror. (noun)

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• "They were fellow-victims in the noyade of marriage, but if they ceased to struggle perhaps the drowning would be easier for both ..."
• "At the last issue, he and she were two separate beings, not made one by the miracle of common forbearances, duties, abnegations, but bound together in a _noyade_ of passion that left them resisting yet clinging as they went down."
• "Finding a rate of 200 executions a day insufficient he invented the noyade."