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pillage

English

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WOTD – 16 August 2008

Etymology

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From Old French pillage, from piller (“plunder”), from an unattested meaning of Late Latin piliō, probably a figurative use of Latin pilō (“I remove (hair)”), from pilus (“hair”).

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Verb

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pillage (third-person singular simple present pillages, present participle pillaging, simple past and past participle pillaged)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To loot or plunder by force, especially in time of war.

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Noun

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pillage (countable and uncountable, plural pillages)

  1. The spoils of war.
  2. The act of pillaging.
    • 2013, Zoë Marriage, Formal Peace and Informal War: Security and Development in Congo:
      An employee at a brewery in Kinshasa rated the aftermath as more catastrophic to the company than the direct violence: It was more the consequences of the pillages that hit Bracongo – the poverty of the people, our friends who buy beer.

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French

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Etymology

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From piller +‎ -age.

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Noun

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pillage m (plural pillages)

  1. pillage

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Norman

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Etymology

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From Old French pillage.

Noun

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pillage m (plural pillages)

  1. (Jersey) looting
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Old French

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Noun

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pillage oblique singular, m (oblique plural pillages, nominative singular pillages, nominative plural pillage)

  1. pillaging
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Descendants

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  • → English: pillage
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