fusillade
[fyoo-suh-leyd, -lahd, -zuh-]
noun
a simultaneous or continuous discharge of firearms.
a general discharge or outpouring of anything: a fusillade of questions.
verb (used with object), fu·sil·lad·ed, fu·sil·lad·ing.
to attack or shoot by a fusillade.
Origin of fusillade
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Contemporary Examples of fusillade
They can expect a fusillade of incoming from Gillibrand and her colleagues.
Historical Examples of fusillade
He followed with a fusillade of questions in strange and varying tongues.
But he had scarcely turned his head when a fusillade burst out.
The Fortune of the RougonsEmile Zola
But the fusillade had begun afresh, this time on the left, in the olive plantations.
The Fortune of the RougonsEmile Zola
They, too, fled before the fusillade and the hail of shot that descended on them.
The Historical Nights' EntertainmentRafael Sabatini
A fusillade of shots and a babel of yelling from outside interrupted his words.
The Mountain DivideFrank H. Spearman
fusillade
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Word Origin for fusillade
C19: from French, from fusiller to shoot; see fusil 1
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