mitraillade

Borrowed from French mitraillade.

mitraillade (plural mitraillades)

1. (rare, chiefly historical) Mass execution by cannon shot or (later) machine-gun, especially during the French Revolution.
   • 1817, John James M’Gregor, History of the French Revolution, vol. III:

     The fusillades and mitraillades were conducted with the most savage coolness.

   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 487:

     when Collot d'Herbois and Fouché replaced him, a veritable frenzy of repression occurred, with opponents being gunned down into open graves in the so-called mitraillades.

• mitraille
• mitrailleur
• mitrailleuse

From mitraill(er) +‎ -ade.

• IPA^(key): /mitʁɑjad/, /mitʁajad/

mitraillade f (plural mitraillades)

1. machine-gunning

• “mitraillade” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).