battalia
Americannoun
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order of battle.
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an armed or arrayed body of troops.
Etymology
Origin of battalia
1585–95; < Italian battaglia body of troops, battle 1
Example Sentences
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All over the middle and southern states the spear-shaped battalia, multitudinous, curving, flaunting—long, glossy, dark-green plumes for the great horseman, earth.
From Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Whitman, Walt
In its centre was the battalia, composed of six hundred splendid cavalry, all noblemen of France, supported by a column of three hundred Swiss and two thousand French infantry.
From By England's Aid Or, the Freeing of the Netherlands, 1585-1604 by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
The camp of this main body of cavalry or "battalia," as the body on whom the commander of our army chiefly relied for victory was called, was comparatively still and silent.
From By England's Aid Or, the Freeing of the Netherlands, 1585-1604 by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
Chapter 5.XXXIX.—How we saw Bacchus's army drawn up in battalia in mosaic work.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 by Motteux, Peter Anthony
Their light-armed archers far and near Surveyed the tangled ground, Their center ranks, with pike and spear, A twilight forest frowned, Their barded horsemen, in the rear, 405 The stern battalia crowned.
From Lady of the Lake by Moody, William Vaughn
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