Weird Word Wednesday
enfiladeNOUN
1A volley of gunfire directed along a line from end to end.‘they were mown down by an enfilade of artillery’2A suite of rooms with doorways in line with each other.Example sentencesVERB
Direct a volley of gunfire along the length of (a target)‘a sweeping crossfire enfiladed our riflemen’OriginEarly 18th century (denoting the position of a military post commanding the length of a line): from French, from enfiler ‘thread on a string, pierce from end to end’, from en- ‘in, on’ + fil ‘thread’.Pronunciation
enfilade/ˌɛnfɪˈleɪd/
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1A volley of gunfire directed along a line from end to end.‘they were mown down by an enfilade of artillery’2A suite of rooms with doorways in line with each other.Example sentencesVERB
Direct a volley of gunfire along the length of (a target)‘a sweeping crossfire enfiladed our riflemen’OriginEarly 18th century (denoting the position of a military post commanding the length of a line): from French, from enfiler ‘thread on a string, pierce from end to end’, from en- ‘in, on’ + fil ‘thread’.Pronunciation
enfilade/ˌɛnfɪˈleɪd/
Kelley HeckartOtherworldly tales steeped in myth, magic & romance.http://www.kelleyheckart.comhttp://kelleysrealm.blogspot.com/http://twitter.com/CelticChickhttps://www.facebook.com/kelleyheckartauthorhttp://www.goodreads.com/kheckartAmazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/Kelley-Heckart/e/B002BMOQ3C
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