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Implements > Pillories

Preferred term

Pillories  

Definition

  • Wooden frameworks on posts, with holes for the head and hands, in which offenders were formerly locked to be exposed to public scorn as punishment [Amer Heritage Dict]; in the Low Countries, also refers to the building in which the pillory proper is housed

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Pillories, buildings

Notation

  • 112168

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URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-RR8LQ36X-M

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