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battue
[ ba-too, -tyoo; French ba-ty ]
noun
- Hunting.
- the beating or driving of game from cover toward a stationary hunter.
- a hunt or hunting party using this method of securing game.
- undiscriminating slaughter of defenseless or unresisting crowds.
battue
/ baty; -ˈtjuː; bæˈtuː /
noun
- the beating of woodland or cover to force game to flee in the direction of hunters
- an organized shooting party using this method
- the game disturbed or shot by this method
- indiscriminate slaughter, as of a defenceless crowd
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Origin of battue1
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Example Sentences
These birds are especially on the spot when the blacks set fire to the bush and organise a big battue.
My hosts had evidently had a recent battue, or fire hunt, for they had a most extraordinary stock of food.
We all now came together, exulting in the fine fortune we had met with, for we had made a regular battue of it.
I can promise you plenty of hunting adventures; and, when the proper season arrives, we shall have a grand battue of the beavers.
The lions were now caught and kept in cages, until they were turned out for a royal battue.
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