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Noun: de Sade
  1. French soldier and writer whose descriptions of sexual perversion gave rise to the term 'sadism' (1740-1814)
    - Sade, Comte Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, Marquis de Sade

Type of: author, writer

Encyclopedia: De Sade, Donatien-alphonse-françois