Affreux
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Affreux is a noun meaning A group of particularly brutal mercenaries who were active in Africa and Asia during the 1960s.
Meaning
A group of particularly brutal mercenaries who were active in Africa and Asia during the 1960s.
More Meanings
- (rare) Dreadful; disturbing or frightening.
Example Sentences
As one Belgian journalist wrote: The affreux ["frightful ones"] are outstanding in combat.
France's return to Comoros was, above all, conspicuous through the actions of the mercenary leader Bob Denard and his team of affreux ('dreadful').
These were mostly, but not exclusively, members of the Baluba tribe and had fled the persecution of Munongo's mercenary affreux and their black rank-and-file.
He had once been one of the dreaded affreux, the “frightful ones,” the white freelance soldiers who helped keep dictators in power throughout Africa and Asia.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include frightening, bloodmonger, terr, badger, barbarian, shifta.
Related Dictionary Tools
Sources & Attribution
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.