An alternative spelling or variant of bastinade; the foot-beating punishment.
From Spanish bastón + -ado (past participle suffix), literally meaning 'clubbed.' This variant spelling preserves the more Spanish form of the word, while bastinade uses the French spelling convention.
The bastinado appears in adventure literature and travel narratives from the colonial era, where European writers used descriptions of this punishment to both sensationalize and critique non-Western legal systems.
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