ruse de guerre
English
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from French ruse de guerre.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editruse de guerre (plural ruses de guerre)
- A stratagem of war.
- 1966, Elena Lourie, “A Society Organized for War: Medieval Spain”, in Past and Present:
- When a fire breaks out in the town, the citizens are straitly ordered not to rush to the fire but to the city-gates in order to secure them; and only then may they put out the fire; for, the statues explain, wilful incendiarism is a well-tried ruse de guerre much used by fifth-columnists anxious to let in the enemy.
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editstratagem of war
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