guillotineeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

guillotinee (複数形 guillotinees)

1. One who is guillotined.
   • 1959, The Paris Review, page 79:

     […]; a cardboard guillotine with a cardboard guillotinee that her father had made from an eggbox;

   • 2003, Piers Letcher, “Eccentric Pioneers”, in Eccentric France: The Bradt Guide to Mad, Magical and Marvellous France, →ISBN, page 68:

     Most of the time, he had the unpleasant job of first assistant, the guy who has to drag the ‘guillotinee’ through the lunette by his head and hold him steady while the blade comes down.

   • 2021, Adam Rutherford; Hannah Fry, Rutherford & Fry’s Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything, Bantam Press, →ISBN:

     He [Pierre-Simon Laplace] was friends with the chemist, taxman and guillotinee Antoine Lavoisier (see Chapter 7), and together they produced influential work on the nature of heat.