Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
carcanet .
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Examples
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The gardens of the royal palaces had always been open to well-dressed citizens, but notices forbade entrance to beggars, servants, and all ill-clad persons under pain of imprisonment, the carcan, and other graver penalties.
The Story of Paris Thomas Okey 1893
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[3] The pillory (_carcan_) in England is generally made very high like that raised to exposing the king of France.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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On a pile of straw, loaded with fetters and his neck encircled by an iron carcan, sat a haggard man, of uncertain age, clothed in rags.
Belmont Club 2010
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