Definitions for battue

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battue bat·tue

Spelling: [ba-too, -tyoo; French ba- Battue is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 78 anagrams from letters in battue (abettu).

Definitions for battue

noun

1. Hunting. the beating or driving of game from cover toward a stationary hunter. a hunt or hunting party using this method of securing game.
2. undiscriminating slaughter of defenseless or unresisting crowds.

Origin of battue

1810-20; French, noun use of feminine of battu, past participle of battre Latin battuere to beat. See battuta, battle¹

Examples for battue

The Indian assured him that it was not the first battue of the kind he had made.

His burghers were ready to "go on the battue of Englishmen," when he gave the word.

A battue of Communards is obviously superior to a battue of pheasants.

From the beginning of the battue it was easy to see that the hunt would be a good one.

The noise is as if a thousand sportsmen were out for a battue.

The battue in Ettrick Forest, for the destruction of the foxes.

I went hunting with no company but the two hundred gamekeepers for the battue.

And as he surveyed the battue he would gradually discern its tactics.

I hate a battue, and call it sport I cannot, and never will.

In a battue of this description a whole neighbourhood joins.