fusillade

English

Etymology

From French fusillade, from fusiller (“shoot with a firearm”), from fusil (“rifle, gun”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈfjuːsɪˌleɪd/
• Rhymes: -eɪd

Noun

fusillade (plural fusillades)

1. The simultaneous firing of a number of firearms.
2. (by extension) A rapid burst.
   • 1901, W. W. Jacobs, The Monkey's Paw:

     But her husband was on his hands and knees groping wildly on the floor in search of the paw. If he could only find it before the thing outside got in. A perfect fusillade of knocks reverberated through the house, and he heard the scraping of a chair as his wife put it down in the passage against the door.

Translations

the simultaneous firing of a number of firearms

Bulgarian: залп (bg) m (zalp) Esperanto: pafado French: fusillade (fr) f German: Gewehrfeuer (de) n, Geschützsalve f, Schusswechsel (de) m, Salve (de) f Hungarian: sortűz (hu) Irish: rúisc f Maori: waipū, waiwaipū Polish: salwa (pl) f Russian: стрельба́ (ru) f (strelʹbá) Spanish: descarga (es) f, ráfaga (es) f

a rapid outburst

Spanish: ráfaga (es) f, torrente (es) m

Verb

fusillade (third-person singular simple present fusillades, present participle fusillading, simple past and past participle fusilladed)

1. To fire, or attack with, a fusillade.