Noun: fusillade
| Singular | fusillade |
| Plural | fusillades |
Sample Sentences
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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. [1901, W. W. Jacobs, The Monkey's Paw:]
Nouns inflected like fusillade
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From French fusillade, from fusiller (“shoot with a firearm”), from fusil (“rifle, gun”). See: French Nouns '
fusillade'.
Verbs referencing "fusillade"
Portuguese Nouns
fuzil.