Noun

Singular republican marriage

Plural republican marriages

republican marriage (plural republican marriages)

  1. 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.

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Mon Jul 6 18:19:39 2009