fusillade
English
editEtymology
editFrom French fusillade, from fusiller (“shoot with a firearm”), from fusil (“rifle, gun”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editfusillade (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
editthe simultaneous firing of a number of firearms
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Verb
editfusillade (third-person singular simple present fusillades, present participle fusillading, simple past and past participle fusilladed)
French
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editfusillade f (plural fusillades)
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editReferences
editFurther reading
edit- “fusillade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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