A strangely specific type of violence. If you know enough latin, you'll recognize 'fenestra', which means 'window'.
On May 21, 1618, two Catholic deputies to the Bohemian national assembly in Prague, and their poor secretary, were thrown out the windows of the castle, Hradčany (Hradshin) by some Protestants to begin the Thirty Years War.
That one event gave us this word, which sounds so humorous.
It has come, metaphorically, to also mean stripping someone of their power and position.
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