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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 dragonnade
 新教徒迫害;武力迫害

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Drag·on·nade n.  The severe persecution of French Protestants under Louis XIV., by an armed force, usually of dragoons; hence, a rapid and devastating incursion; dragoonade.
    He learnt it as he watched the dragonnades, the tortures, the massacres of the Netherlands.   --C. Kingsley.
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