Fusillade Definition

fyo͝osə-läd, -lād, -zə-, fyo͝osə-läd, -lād, -zə-
fusilladed, fusillades, fusillading
noun
fusillades
A simultaneous or rapid and continuous discharge of many firearms.
Webster's New World
Something like this; barrage.
A fusillade of questions.
Webster's New World
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verb
fusilladed, fusillading
To shoot down or attack with a fusillade.
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Other Word Forms of Fusillade

Noun

Singular:
fusillade
Plural:
fusillades

Origin of Fusillade

  • From French fusillade, from fusiller (“shoot with a firearm”), from fusil (“rifle, gun”)

    From Wiktionary

  • French from fusiller to shoot from fusil firearm fusil

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Fusillade Sentence Examples

  • The Swiss Guard stood firm, and, possibly by accident, a fusillade began.

  • La Fayettes fusillade of the republicans, who demanded the deposition of the king (July 17, 1791), led to a definite split between the democratic party and the bourgeois party.

  • The booming cannonade and the fusillade of musketry were growing more intense over the whole field, especially to the left where Bagration's fleches were, but where Pierre was the smoke of the firing made it almost impossible to distinguish anything.

  • He then commenced a regular fusillade on the house, smashing nearly the whole of the windows, beside damaging the framework.

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