tumbril
/ˈtʌmbrəl/
noun
- Alternative spelling of tumbrel; a two-wheeled cart used especially during the French Revolution to carry prisoners to execution.
- The artist painted a scene of a tumbril in the crowded square.
- A tumbril was used to transport the condemned to the scaffold.
- The historical account described the tumbril's grim journey through Paris.
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