cannonade
Americannoun
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a continued discharge of cannon, especially during an attack.
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an attack, as of invective or censure, suggestive of cannon fire; barrage.
verb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
noun
verb
Etymology
Origin of cannonade
1645–55; < French canonnade < Italian cannonata, equivalent to cannon ( e ) cannon + -ata -ade 1
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But “Structures for Life” brings a cannonade of color to Queens, and it’s one of two opportunities to rediscover Saint Phalle in New York right now.
From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2021
Last fall, I wrote it was unlikely that any previous California governor had faced such a simultaneous cannonade of calamities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2020
But Americans chose to cannonade each other with pamphlets, not artillery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2018
Before walking in, Charlotte gave a wee royal hand wave to the cannonade of cameras.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 23, 2018
Mordred’s cannonade, which he was to keep up through the darkness until the morning’s battle, began to thud and bump outside.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
At the Garden itself, packed with 20,000 screaming fans, the Stones presented their Pied Piper with a huge birthday cake, then cannonaded him with custard pies that splattered over the front-row customers.
From Time Magazine Archive
As the object of his cheers cannonaded down the run, Corruzo dashed to the finish line and jumped the fence.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lightning burned streaks in the sky, and thunder cannonaded.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
But the defenders quenched the conflagrations and cannonaded no less bravely.
From The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. by Henryk Sienkiewicz
It was cannonaded at the same time by the armed vessels, and a demonstration was made on it by the division under General Vaughan.
From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Washington Irving
"His footwork," wrote the Associated Press reporter Whitney Martin, "consists of moving forward in a direct line to a point where he is within cannonading range."
From The Guardian ● Nov. 13, 2012
Chief decliners were from Virginia where Bishop James Cannon Jr. had again been cannonading against the Smith-Raskob leadership.
From Time Magazine Archive
Cut off by the German cannonading, the Americans began to run short of ammunition, water, food.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the thick northern fog a terrific cannonading broke out, then the masses of steel moved away.
From Time Magazine Archive
We were awakened soon after daylight by the sound of heavy cannonading in the front.
From A Narrative of Service with the Third Wisconsin Infantry by Julian Wisner Hinkley
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