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Word of the Day for Sunday, July 5, 2009affray \uh-FRAY\, noun: A tumultuous assault or quarrel; a brawl. Mounted encounters by armored knights locked in desperate hand-to-hand combat, stabbing and wrestling in tavern brawls, deceits and brutalities in street affrays, balletic homicide on the dueling field--these were the martial arts of Renaissance Europe. An Irish soldier was stabbed with a boar spear by a German mercenary in 1544 during an affray that followed Henry VIII's capture of Boulogne. Affray comes from Old French esfrei, from esfreer, "to disquiet, to frighten." | |||||||||
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