pilloried.txt

pillory | ˈpilərē | historical
noun (plural pillories)
a wooden framework with holes for the head and hands, in which an offender was imprisoned and exposed to public abuse.
verb (pillories, pillorying, pilloried) [with object]
1 historical put (someone) in a pillory.
2 attack or ridicule publicly: he found himself pilloried by members of his own party.
ORIGIN
Middle English: from Old French pilori, probably from Provençal espilori (associated by some with a Catalan word meaning ‘peephole’, of uncertain origin).