Sade

[ sahd, sad; French sad ]

/ sɑd, sæd; French sad /

noun

Do·na·tien Al·phonse Fran·çois

[daw-na-syan al-fawns frahn-swa] /dɔ naˈsyɛ̃ alˈfɔ̃s frɑ̃ˈswa/, Comte deMarquis de Sade, 1740–1814, French soldier and novelist, notorious for his paraphilia.

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Examples from the Web for sade

I ant seed him; but he sade ad shute Tom soon is look at 'im, an' denide it, wi' mouthful o' curses and oaf.
Uncle Silas|J. S. LeFanu
Armed with this sanction, Wexley called that evening at the Cooper cottage, where Sade kept house for a decrepit great-aunt.
Travelers Five Along Life's Highway|Annie Fellows Johnston
Of ores kennes teares he sade : Lacrimis meis stratum meum rigabo : Ich scal watrien min bedd mid mine teares.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250|Various
But I sartainly am sorry for that poor little Sade Raby, as they call her.
Ruth Fielding At Sunrise Farm|Alice B. Emerson

Amplifying these heads with many other sade expressions, in the perticulers of them.
Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation'|William Bradford

British Dictionary definitions for sade

Sade

/ (sɑːd) /

noun

Comte Donatien Alphonse François de (dɔnasjɛ̃ alfɔ̃s frɑ̃swa də), known as the Marquis de Sade. 1740–1814, French soldier and writer, whose exposition of sexual perversion gave rise to the term sadism

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