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Pronunciation: [kˈanənˌe͡ɪdz] (IPA)

Cannonades, a term that refers to the sound produced by artillery or gunfire, has several synonyms that can be used interchangeably. Depending on the context and intensity of the sound, the word bombardment, fusillade, or gunfire can be deployed as a substitute. Similarly, the word salvo or volley may be employed when describing a sudden burst of cannon fire or gunfire. In addition, the phrase barrage of sound can be used to describe a particularly intense and prolonged display of firepower or artillery. All these synonyms are useful in adding color and drama to descriptive passages about military conflicts, whether in fiction or non-fiction writing.
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This isn't surprising; Keturah's verbal cannonades are likely to make one forgetful of trifles.
"Cy Whittaker's Place"
Joseph C. Lincoln
Otherwise, throughout the first half of the month of October the garrison of Paris restricted itself for the most part to daily cannonades.
"The Franco-German War of 1870-71"
Count Helmuth, von Moltke
And we had not fought them in vain, But in perilous plight were we, Seeing forty of our poor hundred were slain, And half of the rest of us maim'd for life In the crash of the cannonades and the desperate strife; And the sick men down in the hold were most of them stark and cold, And the pikes were all broken or bent, and the powder was all of it spent; And the masts and the rigging were lying over the side; But Sir Richard cried in his English pride, We have fought such a fight for a day and a night As may never be fought again!
"The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886"
Ministry of Education

Famous quotes with Cannonades

  • Friends, wives and husbands, sons and daughters, dead Of plague, famine, and arrows: and the houses Battered unsafe by cannonades of stone Hurled in by the Assyrians: the town-walls Crumbling out of their masonry into mounds Of foolish earth, so smitten by the rams: The hunger-pangs, the thirst like swallowed lime Forcing them gulp green water maggot-quick That lurks in corners of dried cisterns: yea, Murders done for a drink of blood, and flesh Sodden of infants: and no hope alive Of rescue from this heat of prisoning anguish Until Assyrian swords drown it in death.
    Lascelles Abercrombie

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