DRAGONNADE


Meaning of DRAGONNADE in English

n. & v.

n. a persecution by use of troops, esp. (in pl.) of French Protestants under Louis XIV by quartering dragoons on them.

v.tr. subject to a dragonnade.

[ F f. dragon: see DRAGOON ]

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