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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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
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
They declared that they had not sufficient meat, and that they must be allowed to make a razzia upon the cattle of the natives to procure oxen.
From Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley by William Henry Giles Kingston
The gendarmes obtained reinforcements, the razzia into the mountains began anew, but not with much better success.
From Barbarossa and Other Tales by Paul Heyse
At the same time it is allowable to admire the profound secrecy with which the Sarkee planned his 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 James Richardson
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