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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(rare, chiefly historical) Mass execution by cannon shot or (later) machine-gun, especially during the French Revolution..
The fusillades and mitraillades were conducted with the most savage coolness.
when Collot d'Herbois and Fouché replaced him, a veritable frenzy of repression occurred, with opponents being gunned down into open graves in the so-called mitraillades.
Use mitraillade when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Mitraillade means (rare, chiefly historical) Mass execution by cannon shot or (later) machine-gun, especially during the French Revolution..
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The fusillades and mitraillades were conducted with the most savage coolness.
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