fusillade

Definizione monolingua

fusillade

fusillade (third-person singular simple present fusillades, present participle fusillading, simple past and past participle fusilladed)

1. to fire, or attack with, a fusillade

fusillade (plural fusillades)

1. the simultaneous firing of a number of firearms
2. (by extension) a rapid outburst
   • 1901, W. W. Jacobs, The Monkeys 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.

Definizione dizionario fusillade

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