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单词 mitraillade
释义

mitraillade

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French mitraillade.

Noun

mitraillade (plural mitraillades)

  1. (rare, chiefly historical) Mass execution by cannon shot or (later) machine-gun, especially during the French Revolution.
    • 1817, John James M’Gregor, History of the French Revolution, vol. III:
      The fusillades and mitraillades were conducted with the most savage coolness.
    • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 487:
      when Collot d'Herbois and Fouché replaced him, a veritable frenzy of repression occurred, with opponents being gunned down into open graves in the so-called mitraillades.
  • mitraille
  • mitrailleur
  • mitrailleuse

French

Etymology

From mitraill(er) + -ade.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mi.tʁa.jad/, /mi.tʁɑ.jad/

Noun

mitraillade f (plural mitraillades)

  1. machine-gunning

Further reading

  • mitraillade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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