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dragonnade

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drag⋅on⋅nade

  [drag-uh-neyd]
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–noun
1. one of a series of persecutions of French Protestants, under Louis XIV, by dragoons quartered upon them.
2. any persecution with the aid of troops.
Origin:
1705–15; < F, equiv. to dragonne pertaining to a dragoon + -ade -ade
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