English Dictionary

republican marriage

名詞

歴史的

(historical) An alleged form of execution 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.

日本語の意味

歴史的な用語で、フランス革命時に行われたとされる処刑方法を指す。具体的には、男女が裸で縛られ、一定時間公衆の前に晒された後、刺殺、銃殺、または水に投げ込んで溺死させられるという形態を意味する。

Scholars still debate whether the reports of republican marriage—where a man and woman were tied together naked, exposed to public view, and then stabbed, shot, or thrown into a body of water to drown—were propaganda or truth.

学者たちは、男と女が裸で縛られ、公衆の面前でさらされたのちに刺されたり撃たれたり水に投げ込まれて溺死させられたとされる一種の処刑に関する報告が宣伝なのか事実なのか、今も議論している。

意味（1）

(historical) An alleged form of execution 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.

Among other atrocities, he had instituted a new version of republican marriage, which involved tying a naked man and woman together and drowning them.

republican marriages （ plural ）