fusillade

English edit

Etymology edit

From French fusillade, from fusiller (“shoot with a firearm”), from fusil (“rifle, gun”).

Pronunciation edit

(US) IPA^(key): /ˈfjuːsɪˌleɪd/
Rhymes: -eɪd

Noun edit

fusillade (plural fusillades)

The simultaneous firing of a number of firearms.
(by extension) A rapid burst.
- 1901, W. W. Jacobs, The Monkey's Paw:
  But her husband was on his hands and knees groping wildly on the floor in search of the paw. If he could only find it before the thing outside got in. A perfect fusillade of knocks reverberated through the house, and he heard the scraping of a chair as his wife put it down in the passage against the door.

Translations edit

the simultaneous firing of a number of firearms

Bulgarian: залп (bg) m (zalp)
Esperanto: pafado
French: fusillade (fr) f
German: Gewehrfeuer (de) n, Geschützsalve f, Schusswechsel (de) m, Salve (de) f
Hungarian: sortűz (hu)
Irish: rúisc f
Maori: waipū, waiwaipū
Polish: salwa (pl) f
Russian: стрельба́ (ru) f (strelʹbá)
Spanish: descarga (es) f, ráfaga (es) f

a rapid outburst

Spanish: ráfaga (es) f, torrente (es) m

Verb edit

fusillade (third-person singular simple present fusillades, present participle fusillading, simple past and past participle fusilladed)