Stolypinn.
/staˈliːpɪn/ 1. Stolypin's necktie, the noose. colloquial.
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society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > [noun] > gallows > parts of > noose or rope
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Stolypin's necktie1909
widdieneckc1920
1909 J. R. Ware Passing Eng. Victorian Era 234/2 Stolypin's necktie (Europ. Politics, 1897), the final halter. This term was brought into fashion in 1907 (Nov.–Dec.), at a Duma then recently assembled in St Petersburg. One Rodicheff, an extreme Radical, brought in the term on 30th November 1907.
1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia IX. 583/1 Stolypin..instituted a network of courts-martial... Within the few months of their existence they used ‘Stolypin's necktie’ (the noose) to execute more than 1,000 defendants.
2. Used attributively and absol. to designate a type of railway carriage made for the transport of prisoners.
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society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > railway wagon or carriage > carriage designed to carry passengers > other types of passenger carriage
caravan1821
private car1826
Jim Crow car1835
ladies' car1841
saloon car or carriage1842
palace car1844
ladies' carriage1847
parliamentary carriage1849
parlour car1859
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Pullman1869
observation car1872
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corridor coach1911
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Stolypin1970
1970 Harari & Hayward tr. A. Amalrik Involuntary Journey to Siberia xi. 127 This was a so-called ‘Stolypin’ car, specially constructed for the transport of prisoners... They are named after the Tsarist Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior who introduced them after the first Russian Revolution of 1905.
1974 T. P. Whitney tr. A. Solzhenitsyn Gulag Archipel. I. ii. i. 491 The prisoners got used to calling this kind of railroad car a Stolypin car, or, more simply, just a Stolypin.
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