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Webster 1913 Edition
Dragonnade
Dragˊon-nade′
(drăgˊŏn-nād′)
, Noun.
[F., fr.
dragon
dragoon, because Louis XIV., in persecuting the Protestants of his kingdom, quartered dragoons upon them.] The severe persecution of French Protestants under Louis XIV., by an armed force, usually of dragoons; hence, a rapid and devastating incursion; dragoonade.