battailous
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of battailous
1350–1400; Middle English batailous < Middle French bataillos. See battle 1, -ous
Example Sentences
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The "battailous" spirit of the West is not to be expected in a Byzantine sophist.
From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by Saintsbury, George
Near and more near descends the dreadful shade, And now in battailous array display'd, On sounding wings, and screaming in their ire, The cranes rush onward, and the fight require.
From The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes by Gilfillan, George
When, now enraged, proud Leon's king beheld Those walls subdued, which saw his troops expell'd; Enrag'd he saw them own the victor's sway, And hems them round with battailous array.
From The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem by Camões, Luís de
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