battalia

American  

[buh-teyl-yuh, -tahl-] / bəˈteɪl jə, -ˈtɑl- /

noun

Obsolete.

1. order of battle.

2. an armed or arrayed body of troops.

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Etymology

Origin of battalia

1585–95; < Italian battaglia body of troops, battle ¹

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battalia

All over the middle and southern states the spear-shaped battalia, multitudinous, curving, flaunting—long, glossy, dark-green plumes for the great horseman, earth.

From Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

The armies being joined, the king, who was now a match for Wallenstein, quits his camp and draws up in battalia before the Imperial trenches: but the scene was changed.

From Memoirs of a Cavalier A Military Journal of the Wars in Germany, and the Wars in England. From the Year 1632 to the Year 1648. by Daniel Defoe

We marched on to Saluzzo, and the next day the Duke of Savoy presented himself in battalia on the other side of a small river, giving us a fair challenge to pass and engage him.

From Memoirs of a Cavalier A Military Journal of the Wars in Germany, and the Wars in England. From the Year 1632 to the Year 1648. by Daniel Defoe

In its centre was the battalia, composed of six hundred splendid cavalry, all noblemen of France, supported by a column of three hundred Swiss and two thousand French infantry.

From By England's Aid Or, the Freeing of the Netherlands, 1585-1604 by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Both armies being drawn out in battalia, that of the King's, trusting to their numbers, began to charge with great fury, but without any order.

From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 10 Historical Writings by Jonathan Swift