单词 | algarade |
释义 | algaraden. A hostile incursion, a surprise attack. Later also in weakened sense: an outburst, a tirade. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > attack > raid > [noun] roadeOE skeck1297 chevacheec1380 forayc1400 reisea1450 raid1455 bodrag1537 skeg1542 reid1544 inroad1548 outroad1560 excursion1577 excurse1587 bodraging1590 cavalcade1591 chevachance1592 chivancy1616 algaradea1649 course1651 outrakea1765 commando1791 razzia1821 muru1836 chappow1860 night raid1872 a1649 W. Drummond Hist. James II in Wks. (1711) 35 As the French made an Algarad by Sea upon Kent. a1649 W. Drummond Hist. James IV in Wks. (1711) 63 To suppress their Incursions and Algarads. 1660 G. Tooke Eagle-trussers Elegie 21 What the fruit Of all his Travell? all his resolute Assaults, and Algarads? 1878 C. M. Yonge Story Christians & Moors Spain xxiii. 252 There was a continual border war, carried on by the Algarades on either side. 1897 Salt Lake Semi-Weekly Tribune 14 Dec. 13/4 Many persons asked themselves what truth there was in the report, and if it were not intended to conceal some new algarade of the monarch's. 1907 tr. S. Bernhardt My Double Life xxxi. 346 The public and the Press had all been witnesses of my algarade. 1917 J. Morley Recollections II. v. ii. 150 Our Whip was angry, and has launched a little algarade against our misguided friends. 1998 P. F. Bankwitz in J. Blatt French Defeat 1940 xii. 344 Among the witnesses to this humiliating algarade was Commandant Jacques Massu. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1649 |
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