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fusillades

fusillades is the plural of fusillade.

fusillades is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fusillade.

Meaning of fusillade

Noun

fusillade (plural fusillades)

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

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Questions about fusillades

What is fusillades the plural of?
Fusillades is the plural of fusillade.

Words near fusillades in the dictionary

  1. fusilier
  2. fusiliers
  3. fusilinid
  4. fusillade
  5. fusilladed
  6. fusillades
  7. fusillading
  8. fusillation
  9. fusillations
  10. fusilli
  11. fusilly

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