arquebusade
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
French arquebusade (“shot of an arquebus”); eau d'arquebusade, a vulnerary for gunshot wounds.
Noun[edit]
arquebusade (countable and uncountable, plural arquebusades)
- The shot of an arquebus.
- 1726, Gabriel Daniel, The History of France […] :
- The marquis of Guast escaped by the swiftness of his horse , being wounded in the thigh with an arquebusade
- A distilled water from a variety of aromatic plants, such as rosemary, millefoil, etc., originally used as a vulnerary in gunshot wounds.
- 1809, Bartholomew Parr, The London Medical Dictionary:
- The AQUA VULNERATA, arquebusade water, is prepared from numerous aromatics […]
Translations[edit]
the shot of an arquebus
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References[edit]
- “arquebusade”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
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Noun[edit]
arquebusade f (plural arquebusades)
- arquebusade (shot of an arquebus)
Further reading[edit]
- “arquebusade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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