Dragonnade
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The severe persecution of French Protestants under Louis XIV.,by an armed force, usually of dragoons; hence, a rapid anddevastating incursion; dragoonade.He learnt it as he watched the dragonnades, the tortures, themassacres of the Netherlands. C. Kingsley.
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