Definition of "fusillade" []

• A discharge from a number of firearms, fired simultaneously or in rapid succession. (noun)
• A rapid outburst or barrage: a fusillade of insults. (noun)
• To attack with a fusillade. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Then, from lower down to the right, there came a fusillade from the English lines suddenly breaking out, and after a few minutes as suddenly stopping again."
• "But the only casualty of the fusillade was a little white goat who happened to be standing idly by, just in the wrong spot."
• "In their body language and their rulings, the justices often make it clear that they are happier when the target of their fusillade is a familiar face."