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A very loud man involved in noisy dispute
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affray
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, "state of alarm produced by a sudden disturbance," from Old French effrei , esfrei "disturbance, fright," from esfreer (v.) "to worry, concern, trouble, disturb," from Vulgar Latin *exfridare , a hybrid word meaning literally "to take out of peace," ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Benjamin Turner, 18, of Twickenham, London, denies harming him and affray . ▪ He was sorry about the outcome of an affray that he had not started and in no way wanted. ▪ Lowe is also charged with causing an affray . ▪ Student ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. noisy quarrel [syn: altercation , fracas ] a noisy fight [syn: disturbance , fray , ruffle ]
Usage examples of affray.
The lieutenant retained his place in the stern sheets, which he had not left during the affray or the conference.
Yet you, a wretched sleeper, with only a thin plank of wood between you and the affray, hear nothing, absolutely nothing.
An affray was actually in progress between the Italian Ripaldi and the incriminated man Quadling, but the witness arrived as the last fatal blow was struck by the latter.
Carlin and his men had so effectively sustained the detective that the affray had reached a conclusion before they could interfere.
THIS mobsman - one of the few who had escaped uninjured from the affray at the Cathcart estate - had forgotten all else in his mad desire to square accounts with The Shadow.
Well did Traymer know that the affray in the apartment house must have involved Beef Norbin and his mob.
The Shadow had not learned that the lone instigator of the wild affray had escaped.
New York news item: GANGSTERS WAR IN NEW YORK APARTMENT The account referred to the affray of the previous night.
At this stage of the affray Duke Philip, at the request of the Duke of Orleans, flung his truncheon into the lists and ended the fight, in time to save the Sicilian knight.
Before a knight could indulge in mortal affray he was obliged to obtain the consent of his sovereign, provided that peace ruled between his country and that of his antagonist, as was the case between Spain and Burgundy.
Smoothly groomed, her sable hair imperiously pinned since her demeaning affray by the wall, Lirenda advanced in a swish of damp silk.
For Elaira, withdrawn into worried silence concerning the fate of two fugitives abroad in the Skyshiel wilderness, the affray kept its bittersweet edge of snatched victory.
Then an affray at Riverton that made a mockery of my oath as a crown prince.
After the affray Bushart would certainly have been slain had he remained, so he induced the captain of the HUNTER to give him a passage to the first land reached.
Bothwell had taken three wounds in a Border affray some weeks before, and Mary, hearing of this and that he lay in grievous case at Hermitage, had ridden thither in her fond solicitude - a distance of thirty miles - and back again in the same day, thus contracting a chill which had brought her to the very gates of death.