英语词汇“battue”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

battue

释义

‖ battue|baty|
Also 9 battu.
[F. (= Pr. batuda, It. battuta, L. type batūta) ‘a beating, a beat-up,’ n. formed on fem. pa. ppl. of battre to beat. (Analogous to those in -ata, -ade.)]
1. The driving of game from cover (by beating the bushes, etc. in which they lodge) to a point where a number of sportsmen wait to shoot them.
1816Gentl. Mag. LXXXVI. i. 414 The keen Sportsman..and a favoured few, on a set day, have the Grand Battu.1860All Y. Round No. 71. 485 A battue is a contrivance for killing the largest quantity of game in the smallest time, with the least amount of trouble, by a small select party.
attrib.1849Cobden Speeches 52 That modern innovation of battue shooting, which was not known in 1790.
2. transf.
a. A beat up, a thorough search.
b. Wholesale slaughter, esp. of unresisting crowds.
1854Card. Wiseman Fabiola i. viii. 43 Ordered a grand general battue through every part of the house where Syra had been.1864Burton Scot Abr. I. iv. 162 The great battue of St. Bartholomew's Day.
3. The game thus driven from cover.
1849in Smart.

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