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 de Marquis de Sade, 1740–1814, French soldier and novelist, notorious for his paraphilia.
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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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