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  • noun Plural form of huzza; alternative spelling of huzzahs.

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Examples

  • Meantime the King, leaving Napoleon in the chateau to ruminate on the fickleness of fortune, drove off to see his own victorious soldiers, who greeted him with huzzas that rent the air, and must have added to the pangs of the captive Emperor.

    She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

  • The participants, who numbered in the hundreds, returned to the site of Fort Frederick, raised a thirty-six-foot pine tree with the Constitution at its top on the very spot where the “Antis” had burned it that morning, played music, shouted huzzas, shot more cannon, then took the tree and the Constitution down and paraded them through the town.

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

  • The participants, who numbered in the hundreds, returned to the site of Fort Frederick, raised a thirty-six-foot pine tree with the Constitution at its top on the very spot where the “Antis” had burned it that morning, played music, shouted huzzas, shot more cannon, then took the tree and the Constitution down and paraded them through the town.

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

  • The participants, who numbered in the hundreds, returned to the site of Fort Frederick, raised a thirty-six-foot pine tree with the Constitution at its top on the very spot where the “Antis” had burned it that morning, played music, shouted huzzas, shot more cannon, then took the tree and the Constitution down and paraded them through the town.

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

  • They jumped into the boats in the highest spirits, and bade adieu to Goree with repeated huzzas.

    The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805 2008

  • He “quivered with emotion,” and when he finished his listeners erupted in huzzas, and women waved whitehandkerchiefs.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • He “quivered with emotion,” and when he finished his listeners erupted in huzzas, and women waved whitehandkerchiefs.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • He “quivered with emotion,” and when he finished his listeners erupted in huzzas, and women waved whitehandkerchiefs.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • He “quivered with emotion,” and when he finished his listeners erupted in huzzas, and women waved whitehandkerchiefs.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • He “quivered with emotion,” and when he finished his listeners erupted in huzzas, and women waved whitehandkerchiefs.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

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