Word: guillotines
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...guillotine is not French and was not named for its inventor. (The several-hundred-year-old device was merely advocated by Dr. Joseph Guillotin, who opposed the prevalent methods of torture and execution. After the Terror, Guillotin's family changed its name...
...Ignace Guillotin, anxious to ease the condemned's suffering...