Plural of bastinade; multiple instances or types of the foot-beating punishment.
Regular English pluralization of bastinade by adding -s. The word maintains its Spanish-French etymological roots while functioning as a standard English plural.
Court records from the Ottoman Empire and Morocco contain detailed accounts of bastinades—they're a dark window into how different societies codified and documented violent punishment in ways we now find shocking.
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