DECOLLA'TION, noun [Latin to behead; the neck.] The act of beheading; the act of cutting off the neck of an animal, and severing the head from the body. It is especially used of St. John the Baptist, and of a painting which represents his beheading.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.