guillotine
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- noun
- /ˈɡɪləˌtiːn/
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guillotina
- In historical accounts, the sharp blade of the guillotine was believed to be a swift method of execution.
- execution by guillotine
- decapitation by guillotine
- die by the guillotine
Like Jeff Bezos had a guillotine erected in front of his home in Washington, DC.
- Like Jeff Bezos had a guillotine erected in front of his home in Washington, DC.
- I say, you know, in France they will build him the guillotine.
- And when they come for you, they come with pitchforks and guillotines and it it's not a good look.
- There's like they invented the guillotine.
Examples
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Some even spoke of the guillotine of the Reign of Terror in Paris and gutters running with blood.
Fiction book (1990) -
In Paris, the most extreme revolutionaries had been toppled, sent to the guillotine as they had sent so many before them.
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And I will go to the guillotine a happy woman.
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I think he just took your place under the guillotine.
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We now see the woman being led to a guillotine constructed on a wooden stage.
Fiction book (1999) -
The lawyer was to go first, and so they put the lawyer's head under the guillotine.
Academic text (1999) -
Then he turns and walks up the stairs to the guillotine stage.
Fiction book (1999) -
The guillotine was there, in the centre, where the obelisk is now.
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Marie Antoinette is first made the object of satire, then a victim of the guillotine.
Academic text (1995) -
The innocence and beauty of the sitter apparently did not mitigate the portrait's evocation of the guillotine.
Academic text (2011)
Surface Forms
Etymology
Guillotine comes from the name of a French doctor, Guillotin, who in the time of the French Revolution suggested a single, quick way to execute people, and the machine later took his name. So a guillotine is the heavy, angled blade device used to 'cut off the head' as a form of execution.