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sortie

[ sawr-tee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, sor·tied, sor·tie·ing.

sortie

/ ˈsɔːtɪ /

1. (of troops, etc) the act of emerging from a contained or besieged position
2. the troops doing this
an operational flight made by one aircraft
a short or relatively short return trip

Origin of sortie¹

1680–90; < French, noun use of feminine past participle of sortir to go out

Origin of sortie¹

C17: from French: a going out, from sortir to go out

My grandfather, his father, was a WW1 ace and was on the sortie which downed the Red Baron.

Lieutenant-Colonel Abercromby, who had led the only serious sortie from Yorktown, chewed his sword in impotent rage.

Many ladies do not like to display their "sortie du soire" before a crowded room, and you will be keeping their escort waiting.

By September the enemy had opened their trenches round Perpignan, and Prignon was entrusted with a night sortie.

Bonaparte attacked Valetta, in Malta, and in a sortie the Maltese lost the standard of their order.

But the garrison made a sortie, seized the towers, destroyed them, and killed or captured the soldiers who manned them.

In a sortie Bohemond the crafty and brave was wounded; Tancred's and Godfrey's valor ended in repulse.

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