foray
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
foray (plural forays)
- A sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence, any irregular incursion for war or spoils; a raid.
- A brief excursion or attempt, especially outside one's accustomed sphere.
- French: incursion
- German: plötzlicher Überfall, überraschender Überfall
- Italian: incursione, scorrazzata, scorreria, irruzione
- Portuguese: incursão
- Russian: набе́г
- Spanish: incursión
- German: kurzer Ausfall, Streifzug
foray (forays, present participle foraying; past and past participle forayed)
- (transitive) To scour (an area or place) for food, treasure, booty etc.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/MaloryWks2/1:7.9?rgn=div2;view=fulltext chapter ix], in Le Morte Darthur, book V:
- Thenne on a tyme the kynge called syr florence a knyght / and sayd to hym they lacked vytaylle / and not ferre from hens ben grete forestes and woodes / wherin ben many of myn enemyes with moche bestyayl / I wyl that thou make the redy and goo thyder in foreyeng / and take with the syr Gawayn my neuew
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/MaloryWks2/1:7.9?rgn=div2;view=fulltext chapter ix], in Le Morte Darthur, book V:
- (intransitive) To pillage; to ravage.
- Italian: scorrazzare, irrompere, razziare
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