Dragonnade

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dragonnade \Drag`on*nade"\ (dr[a^]g`[o^]n*n[=a]d"), n. [F., fr.
     dragon dragoon, because Louis XIV., in persecuting the
     Protestants of his kingdom, quartered dragoons upon them.]
     The severe persecution of French Protestants under Louis
     XIV., by an armed force, usually of dragoons; hence, a rapid
     and devastating incursion; dragoonade.


     [1913 Webster]
  
           He learnt it as he watched the dragonnades, the
           tortures, the massacres of the Netherlands. --C.
                                                    Kingsley.
     Dragon's head
     Dragon's blood