What is "brandings"

Usage examples of "brandings".

All those people now with piercings and tattoos and brandings and scarification .

This makeover would make piercings and tattoos and brandings look so lame, all those little fashion revolts so safe that they themselves only become fashionable.

Paid them the lowest wages in that sector and dealt with any protests through whippings, brandings, and the occasional mass execution.

He’d hated every minute of ag, but he’d remembered the movies of brandings and birthings and butcherings.

In Cuba, she had seen bad things happen to slaves: brandings and horsewhippings and even hangings.

Your Majesty's chaplain cannot deny that there is logic in the argument, but we do feel that the Indians' obligation should not require them to die indiscriminately and arbitrarily—of beatings, brandings, starvation rations, and other mistreatments—certainly not before they have been baptized and fully confirmed in the Faith.