† mitrailladen.

Forms: 1800s mitraillade, 1800s mitrillade.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French mitraillade.

Etymology: < French mitraillade discharge of several cannons armed with small missiles (1794; in later use in sense ‘action of firing bursts from automatic weapons’) < mitraille mitraille n. + -ade -ade suffix. N.E.D. (1907) gives the pronunciation as (mitrayad) /mitrɑjad/.

Obsolete. rare.

Massacre or mass execution by volleys of mitraille; an instance of this.

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the world > life > death > killing > slaughter > [noun] > instance of > by specific method

fusillade1801

mitraillade1815

1815 Star 4 Aug. Justice might be satisfied, it is true, without the public exhibition of executions on the Place de Greve, or a mitraillade a la Bonaparte at Toulon.

1833 A. Alison Hist. Europe during French Revol. II. xii. 202 The inhuman mitrillades [1849–50 mitraillades] of Lyons.

1871 Littell's Living Age 25 Feb. 539 They decided every question with the sword—proscription being the result of defeat, and exile, mitraillade, and massacre everyday occurrences.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	mitraillade
释义	† mitrailladen. Forms: 1800s mitraillade, 1800s mitrillade. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French mitraillade. Etymology: < French mitraillade discharge of several cannons armed with small missiles (1794; in later use in sense ‘action of firing bursts from automatic weapons’) < mitraille mitraille n. + -ade -ade suffix. N.E.D. (1907) gives the pronunciation as (mitrayad) /mitrɑjad/. Obsolete. rare. Massacre or mass execution by volleys of mitraille; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > slaughter > [noun] > instance of > by specific method fusillade1801 mitraillade1815 1815 Star 4 Aug. Justice might be satisfied, it is true, without the public exhibition of executions on the Place de Greve, or a mitraillade a la Bonaparte at Toulon. 1833 A. Alison Hist. Europe during French Revol. II. xii. 202 The inhuman mitrillades [1849–50 mitraillades] of Lyons. 1871 Littell's Living Age 25 Feb. 539 They decided every question with the sword—proscription being the result of defeat, and exile, mitraillade, and massacre everyday occurrences. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1815
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