cannonade
can·no·nade
noun
1.
intense and continuous artillery fire
verb
Origin
Borrowed from Middle French canonnade, a modification of Italian cannonata replacing the suffix -ata with equivalent -ade; by surface analysis, cannon + -ade.
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