salvoes

Noun (1)

salvo (plural salvos or salvoes)

1. An exception; a reservation; an excuse.
   • They admit […] salvos, cautions, and reservations.1649, Charles I of England (attributed), Eikon Basilike

Noun (2)

salvo (plural salvos or salvoes)

1. A concentrated fire from pieces of artillery, as in endeavoring to make a break in a fortification; a volley.
2. A salute paid by a simultaneous, or nearly simultaneous, firing of a number of cannon.
   • “Regard not that, my brother,” answered Magdalen Græme; “the first successors of Saint Peter himself, were elected not in sunshine but in tempests—not in the halls of the Vatican, but in the subterranean vaults and dungeons of Heathen Rome—they were not gratulated with shouts and salvos of...1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XIII, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and...
3. (broadly) Any volley, as in an argument or debate.
   • It was an impressive opening salvo from the Baggies, especially for a side that have made a poor beginning to what has been an admittedly tough start to their campaign.2011 October 1, Phil Dawkes, “Sunderland 2 - 2 West Brom”, in BBC Sport
4. The combined cheers of a crowd.

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