Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The discharge of a pistol; a pistol-shot.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A pistol shot.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
pistol shot .
Etymologies
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French
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Examples
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I have heard of a pistolade between two gentlemen, which lasted very long without much effect; it looks like our too much spoken of cannonade at Newport, while the siege was continued.
Memoirs Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de 1837
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I have heard of a _pistolade_ between two gentlemen, which lasted very long without much effect; it looks like our too much spoken of
Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier Lafayette 1795
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