volée
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French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Participle
[edit]volée f sg
Noun
[edit]volée f (plural volées)
- (of birds) flying, flight
- prendre la volée ― to take flight
- (of birds) flock, group
- (of missiles) volley
- une volée d’obus ― howitzer volley
- (colloquial) thrashing, defeat
- donner une volée ― to give a thrashing
- (of stairs) flight
- volée de marches ― flight of stairs
- (sports) volley
Derived terms
[edit]Derived terms
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- Dictionnaire encyclopédique Quillet, édition révisée de 1983, Paris
- Dictionnaire de l'Académie française, 8ᵉ édition, Paris, 1932-1935
Further reading
[edit]- “volée”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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