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Salvo   /sˈælvoʊ/   Listen
Salvo

noun
(pl. salvos)
1.
An outburst resembling the discharge of firearms or the release of bombs.
2.
Rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms.  Synonyms: burst, fusillade, volley.
3.
A sudden outburst of cheers.






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"Salvo" Quotes from Famous Books



... {dikaios}, Sturz, "non temere"; "and not without good reason." Al. "a right good honest salvo of barks." ...
— The Sportsman - On Hunting, A Sportsman's Manual, Commonly Called Cynegeticus • Xenophon

... Maypole before the seigneur's house, and this they never failed to do, because the seigneur in return was expected to dispense hospitality to all who came. Bright and early in the morning the whole community appeared and greeted the seigneur with a salvo of blank musketry. With them they carried a tall fir-tree, pulled bare to within a few feet of the top where a tuft of green remained. Having planted this Maypole in the ground, they joined in dancing and a feu de joie in the ...
— Crusaders of New France - A Chronicle of the Fleur-de-Lis in the Wilderness - Chronicles of America, Volume 4 • William Bennett Munro

... Madrid, Flash'd blue 'neath its lid; As the cry and the clamour ran round, "The king has been crown'd! And the brow of his bride has been bound With the crown of a queen!" And between Te Deum and salvo, the roar Of the crowd in the square, Shook tower and bastion and door, And the marble of altar and floor; And high in the air, The wreaths of the incense were driven To and fro, as are riven The leaves of a lily, and cast By the jubilant shout of the blast To and fro, to and ...
— Old Spookses' Pass • Isabella Valancy Crawford

... (before) En caso que (in case) De miedo que (lest) Por mas que (however much, although) Sin que (without) Para que (so that) A menos que (unless) Salvo que (except that) Con tal que (provided that) Sea que (whether ... ...
— Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.) • C. A. Toledano

... ramparts, and the pale horse shall be hurled back on his haunches. Safe in the refuge! To this castle I fly. This last fire shall but illumine its towers; and the rolling thunders of the judgment will be the salvo of ...
— New Tabernacle Sermons • Thomas De Witt Talmage


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