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Dragonnade

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新教徒迫害;武力迫害

資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Dragonnade \Drag`on*nade"\ (dr[a^]g`[o^]n*n[=a]d"), n. [F., fr.
   dragon dragoon, because Louis XIV., in persecuting the
   Protestants of his kingdom, quartered dragoons upon them.]
   The severe persecution of French Protestants under Louis
   XIV., by an armed force, usually of dragoons; hence, a rapid
   and devastating incursion; dragoonade.

         He learnt it as he watched the dragonnades, the
         tortures, the massacres of the Netherlands. --C.
                                                  Kingsley.
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