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coups de grâce

coups de grâce is the plural of coup de grâce.

Meaning of coup de grâce

Noun

coup de grâce (plural coups de grâce)

  1. A final blow or shot given to kill a wounded person or animal.
    • After we had row'd, or rather driven about a League and a Half, as we reckon'd it, a raging Wave, Mountain-like, came rolling a-ſtern of us, and plainly bad us expect the Coup-de-Grace.1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC, page 50
  2. (broadly, figuratively) A remarkable finishing action.

Questions about coups de grâce

What is coups de grâce the plural of?
Coups de grâce is the plural of coup de grâce.

Words near coups de grâce in the dictionary

  1. coups d'oeil
  2. coups d'état
  3. coups de force
  4. coups de foudre
  5. coups de grace
  6. coups de grâce
  7. coups de maitre
  8. coups de théâtre
  9. coups-de-grace
  10. coupstick
  11. coupsticks

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