guillotinee

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noun

One who is guillotined.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

nounguillotinee (plural guillotinees)

plural guillotinees

  1. One who is guillotined.

    […]; a cardboard guillotine with a cardboard guillotinee that her father had made from an eggbox;

    1959, The Paris Review, page 79
    2 more examples

    Most of the time, he had the unpleasant job of first assistant, the guy who has to drag the ‘guillotinee’ through the lunette by his head and hold him steady while the blade comes down.

    2003, Piers Letcher, “Eccentric Pioneers”, in Eccentric France: The Bradt Guide to Mad, Magical and Marvellous France, Bradt Travel Guides Ltd; The Globe Pequot Press Inc, →ISBN, page 68

    He [Pierre-Simon Laplace] was friends with the chemist, taxman and guillotinee Antoine Lavoisier (see Chapter 7), and together they produced influential work on the nature of heat.

    2021, Adam Rutherford, Hannah Fry, Rutherford & Fry’s Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything, Bantam Press, →ISBN

Origin

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APA

guillotinee. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/guillotinee

MLA

“guillotinee.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/guillotinee. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “guillotinee,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/guillotinee.

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