quemadero

For one thing I did not know where the place of the quemadero was; and I do not yet know where those

Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

A magnificent quemadero, or crematory, second only to that of Madrid, was built: a square stone platform where almost every day the smoke of human sacrifice ascended.

Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

They were all tied to stakes on the quemadero, a piece of pavement, without the walls of the city, devoted to the single use of burning human victims.

Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal Sarah J. Richardson

For one thing I did not know where the place of the _quemadero_ was; and I do not yet know where those Protestant churches are.

Familiar Spanish Travels William Dean Howells 1878

A magnificent _quemadero, _ or crematory, second only to that of Madrid, was built: a square stone platform where almost every day the smoke of human sacrifice ascended.

Familiar Spanish Travels William Dean Howells 1878

Tomorrow you will be included in the auto da fe: that is, you will be exposed to the quemadero, the symbolical flames of the Everlasting Fire: it burns, as you know, only at a distance, my son; and Death is at least two hours (often three) in coming, on account of the wet, iced bandages with which we protect the heads and hearts of the condemned.

Belmont Club 2010

_quemadero_, "_en que_ los quemavan," is so equivocal, that it has led to some doubts whether he meant to assert that the persons to be burnt were enclosed in the statues, or fastened to them.

The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 1 William Hickling Prescott 1827