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Pillories  

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  • 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

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Etiquetas alternativas

  • Pillories, buildings

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

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