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‖ quemadero|kemaˈðero|
[Sp., f. quemar to burn.]
In Spain and former Spanish territories, a place where convicted heretics were executed by burning. Also transf.
1855W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Philip II I. ii. iii. 353 The place of execution—the quemadero, the burning-place, as it was called—was a spot selected for the purpose without the walls of the city. 1874W. H. Rule Hist. Inquisition I. xiv. 208 Outside the city..was a hearth, or place of burning. As our own language is too poor to provide a name for such a thing, we consent to borrow from Spanish its peculiar and exclusive designation, and call it the quemadero. The quemadero was a piece of pavement devoted to the single use of burning human bodies. 1908H. C. Lea Inquisition in Spanish Dependencies vi. 206 It was not until 1596 that the municipality [sc. Mexico], at a cost of four hundred pesos, constructed a quemadero or burning place, where concremation could be performed decently and in order. 1932C. Roth Hist. Marranos ii. 43 A quemadero, or burning place, was constructed in the Campo de Tablada. 1934A. Huxley Beyond Mexique Bay 189 On each mound were..hearths of broken potsherds, blackened with smoke—the quemaderos, or burning places of the Indians. 1960S. Becker tr. Schwarz-Bart's Last of Just (1961) i. 11 He died very old..on the vast white slab of the Quemadero in Seville. Around him, scattered among the fagots, was the daily ovenful of three hundred Jews. |