"boulet rouge" meaning in Français

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Noun

IPA: \bu.lɛ ʁuʒ\ Forms: boulets rouges [plural]
  1. Boulet qu’on faisait rougir au feu avant de le mettre dans le canon, et que l’on employait comme projectile incendiaire.
    Sense id: fr-boulet_rouge-fr-noun-hBwRI46O Categories (other): Lexique en français de l’histoire Topics: history
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: tirer à boulet rouge, tirer à boulets rouges Related terms: obus, shrapnel

Inflected forms

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