dry guillotine

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dry guillotine

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As an alternative (and bloodless) punishment to the guillotine.

noun

historical, slang, uncountable Forced deportation to a penal colony, especially as a punishment during the French Revolution. Nor could they forget the 200-odd priests massacred in the Paris prisons in September 1792, [...] or the 118 who never came back from the dry guillotine that was French Guiana.

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@misc{dry_guillotine_2026,
  title = {dry guillotine},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/dry%20guillotine},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}