tumbrel
noun
one of the carts used during the French Revolution to convey victims to the guillotine.
tumbril
-
a variation of
tumbrel.
Example Sentences
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After one opening that had the audience rolling in the aisles, the leading man found Kaufman crushed against a wall "looking a little like the late Marie Antoinette in the tumbril."
From Time Magazine Archive
As a vehicle for the waxing dramatic talents of Ginger Rogers, The Primrose Path is something of a tumbril.
From Time Magazine Archive
When the creak of the tumbril was heard again last spring in Europe, it was almost inevitable that a biography of Robespierre would not be far behind.
From Time Magazine Archive
First to hit the tumbril was Izvestia Editor Aleksei Adzhubei, 40, the pudgy, sneering, widely resented husband of Nikita's daughter Rada.
From Time Magazine Archive
With her nerves keyed to breaking point she went up to her own floor with somewhat the sensation she might have had in stepping from the tumbril to the guillotine.
From The Lion's Mouse by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
