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单词 estrapade
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estrapaden.

/ɛstrəˈpeɪd/
Etymology: < French estrapade (compare Spanish estrapada), < Italian strappata, < strappare to pull tight; apparently of Germanic origin; compare German (Swiss) strapfen to draw, German straff drawn tight.
1. The attempt of a horse to get rid of his rider by rearing and kicking.In modern dictionaries.
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1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Estrapade,..is the Defence of a Horse that will not obey, who, to rid himself of his Rider, rises mightily before, and..furiously jerks [printed yerks] out his Hind-legs.
1828 in N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang.
2. Historical. A torture consisting in attaching a person's hands and feet to a rope, drawing him up by them to a great height, and then letting him fall suddenly; = strappado n.
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society > authority > punishment > torture > [noun] > by strappado
strappado1560
estrapade1856
1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. I. 404 He [Francis] could ill afford to forsake a religion which allowed him so pleasantly to compound for his amatory indulgences by the estrapade.
1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. v. 423 The estrapade was an infernal machine introduced by Francis into Paris for the better correction of heresy.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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