razzia
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of razzia
1835–45; < French < Arabic (Algerian) ghāzya military raid, variant of Arabic ghazwah
Example Sentences
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It was Flip’s birthday when the razzia came to that quiet residential street of identical attached homes.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
This method of lightning search and seizure was called the razzia, and every family with young men lived in dread of it.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
The Sarkee is at this moment desperately poor, and is going on this approaching razzia to raise money to satisfy his creditors.
From Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government by Richardson, James
The life of the male population of Zinder seems to pass in dreamy indolence, varied continually by the excitement of a razzia.
From Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government by Richardson, James
The report is now current in Zinder, that the Sarkee is going, in the course of seven or eight days, to razzia some neighbouring place in the direction of Daura.
From Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government by Richardson, James
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