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fusillade [ˌfjuːzɪˈleɪd -ˈlɑːd] n 1. (Military / Firearms, Gunnery, Ordnance & Artillery) a simultaneous or rapid continual discharge of firearms 2. a sudden outburst, as of criticism vb (Military / Firearms, Gunnery, Ordnance & Artillery) (tr) to attack with a fusillade [from French, from fusiller to shoot; see fusil1] Fusillade simultaneous discharge of firearms. Examples: fusillade of bullets; of personalities, 1884; of swearing, 1881; of terror, 1863.
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The twenty men marched straight toward the barrier, but from behind the beams, from among the wagon-wheels and from the heights of the rocks a terrible fusillade burst forth and at the same time Planchet's halberdiers appeared at the corner of the Cemetery of the Innocents, and Louvieres's bourgeois at the corner of the Rue de la Monnaie. Our warriors then rushed up to the roofs of the buildings which we occupied and followed the retreating armada with a continuous fusillade of deadly fire. I was even afraid that that last fusillade I had heard might mean the extermination of our invaders from Mars. |
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