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chicotte
chicotte
English
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Noun
chicotte (plural chicottes)
- A long knotted whip with a wooden handle, formerly used as a punishment in the Congo and Portuguese Africa.
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1928, Daily Express, 28 November:
- Corporal punishment, or ‘chicotte’, now exists only in the Congo army.
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1998, Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost, Pan 2012, p. 120:
- Usually the chicotte was applied to the victim's bare buttocks.
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1928, Daily Express, 28 November: