affret

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/əˈfɹɛt/

noun

An attack.

OriginItalian affrettare →
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Meanings

nounaffret (plural affrets)

plural affrets

  1. obsoleteAn attack.

    And, passing forward with furious affret, / Pierst through his bever and quite into his brow.

    1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene

Origin

  1. Italianaffrettare
  2. Englishaffret

From Italian affrettare.

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MLA

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Chicago

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