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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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
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
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
The subtitle of William Harlan Hale's novel about Hannibal Hooker puts the tumbril before the horse: His Death and Adventures.
From Time Magazine Archive
Gerald and Donkin, smothered in violets and primroses, were personally conducting a sort of tumbril, which dashed across my field of vision from time to time, sometimes full, sometimes empty, but always at full gallop.
From The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton by Ian Hay
