单词 | strappado |
释义 | strappado/straˈpɑːdəʊ![]() noun (plural strappados) (usually the strappado) historical 1A form of punishment or torture in which the victim was secured to a rope and made to fall from a height almost to the ground before being stopped with an abrupt jerk.In Japan, for example, torture was used from a very early date to extract confessions, and from the beginning of the Tokugawa period in the seventeenth century the Japanese seem to have used something very like the strappado....
1.1The instrument used for inflicting the punishment or torture of strappado.The Medicis regained power in 1512 with the help of Spanish troops, and Machiavelli was deposed from his public office, imprisoned and tortured with the strappado (a technique recently revived in Guantanamo)....
OriginMid 16th century: from French (e)strapade, from Italian strappata, from strappare 'to snatch'. |
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