fusillade
English
Etymology
From French fusillade, from fusiller (“shoot with a firearm”), from fusil (“rifle, gun”).
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈfjuːsɪˌleɪd/
- Rhymes: -eɪd
Noun
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.
- 1901, W. W. Jacobs, "The Monkey's Paw"
Translations
the simultaneous firing of a number of firearms
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a rapid outburst
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Verb
fusillade (third-person singular simple present fusillades, present participle fusillading, simple past and past participle fusilladed)
- To fire, or attack with, a fusillade.
French
Etymology
fusiller + -ade
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fy.zi.jad/
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Noun
fusillade f (plural fusillades)
- shootout; shooting (of a firearm)
- fusillade
- (ice hockey) penalty
Derived terms
- tir de fusillade
Related terms
- fusil
Further reading
- “fusillade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.