# der Pranger

der Pranger is a German noun meaning “pillory”. Forms: des Prangers, die Pranger.

## Forms

- Genitive: des Prangers
- Plural: die Pranger

## In other languages

- Русский: позорный столб

## Meanings

1. pillory; any construction to hold someone for public humiliation
   - 1904, Friedrich Bernhard Störzner, Was die Heimat erzählt, Arwed Strauch, page 197 — Who stood at the pillory could be scoffed, ridiculed, mocked by everyone, even be thrown at with dirt and excrements.

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