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Battue

noun
1.
A hunt in which beaters force the game to flee in the direction of the hunter.
2.
Indiscriminate slaughter.  Synonyms: bloodbath, bloodletting, bloodshed.  "Ten days after the bloodletting Hitler gave the action its name" , "The valley is no stranger to bloodshed and murder" , "A huge prison battue was ordered"





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"Battue" Quotes from Famous Books



... tire pour la battue, moi," John had fenced him off with a feeble joke and a feeble laugh. (Why should he feel ashamed? Was this not war, and he a prisoner ...
— Fort Amity • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... an Englishman, had the common English reverence for the Sunday, and would not shoot on that day, though by his conscientious abstention he missed, undoubtedly, the best battue the country-side afforded. We had a brief discussion as to the morality and propriety of the procession, and I pointed out to him that notwithstanding the military element by which it was so strongly marked, it was purely ...
— Schwartz: A History - From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray • David Christie Murray
... aux paroles des rois Et qu'un hote n'est pas une bete feroce! Le roi, les chevaliers, l'eveque avec sa crosse, Ils sont venus, j'ai dit: Entrez; c'etaient des loups! Est-ce qu'ils ont marche sur elle avec des clous Qu'elle est toute meurtrie? Est-ce qu'ils l'ont battue? Et voila maintenant nos filles qu'on nous tue Pour voler un vieux casque en vieil or de ducat! Je voudrais que quelqu'un d'honnete m'expliquat Cet evenement-ci, voila ma fille morte! Dire qu'un empereur ...
— La Legende des Siecles • Victor Hugo


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