英语词汇“pear of confession”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. An instrument of torture made of curved metal panels, roughly pear-shaped when closed but capable of being opened up gradually. Sometimes more fully pear of confession. Cf. choke-pear n. 2. Now historical.

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society > authority > punishment > torture > instrument or place of torture > [noun] > pear-shaped

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1630 Pathomachia iii. iv. 29 Vnlesse thou confesse,..the Scottish Bootes, the Dutch Wheele, the Spanish Strappado, Linnen Ball, and Peare of Confession shall torment thee.

1990 J. A. Amato Victims & Values i. 9 This diverse array of instruments..were used by secular and religious authorities as well. They included a vaginal pear (an opening device), a chastity belt, [etc.].

1990 J. Ayto Glutton's Glossary 213 Medieval torturers devised a particularly gruesome tool known in English as the pear of confession.

1997 Richmond (Va.) Times Dispatch (Nexis) 16 Feb. f4 One guesses that some readers may learn more than they want to about the strappado, the ‘pear’, and the Judas chair.

单词	pear of confession
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