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Sade

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Sade  (säd, sd), Comte Donatien Alphonse François de Known as "Marquis de Sade." 1740-1814.
French writer of novels, plays, and short stories characterized by a preoccupation with sexual violence.

Sade [sɑːd]
n
(Biographies / Sade, Donatien Alphonse François de, Comte (1740-1814) M, French, MILITARY: soldier, WRITING: writer) Comte Donatien Alphonse François de (dɔnasjɛ̃ alfɔ̃s frɑ̃swa də), known as the Marquis de Sade. 1740-1814, French soldier and writer, whose exposition of sexual perversion gave rise to the term sadism
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Noun1.Sade - French soldier and writer whose descriptions of sexual perversion gave rise to the term `sadism' (1740-1814)


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