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Definition of Fracas
1. Noun. Noisy quarrel.
Generic synonyms: Dustup, Quarrel, Row, Run-in, Words, Wrangle
Specialized synonyms: Batrachomyomachia
Definition of Fracas
1. n. An uproar; a noisy quarrel; a disturbance; a brawl.
Definition of Fracas
1. Noun. A noisy disorderly quarrel, fight, brawl, disturbance or scrap. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fracas
1. a brawl [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fracas
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Literary usage of Fracas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Political Recollections, 1840 to 1872 by George Washington Julian (1884)
"I HAPPENED to be in the Senate on April lyth, just before the memorable fracas
between Foote, of Mississippi, and Col. Benton. They had had an unfriendly ..."
2. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1905)
"... and Tethering of the ' Stock'— Crossing the Arkansas — Great Battle with
Rattlesnakes — A Mustang Colt and a Mule fracas —'The Caches'— Origin and ..."
3. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1905)
"... 'Stock'— Crossing the Arkansas — Great Battle with Rattlesnakes — A Mustang
Colt and a Mule fracas —'The Caches'— Origin and Signification of the Term. ..."
4. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson (1872)
"... as it were the falling of houses, trees, thunder-claps, any ruinous destruction,
wrack, havoc, hurlyburly, breaking to pieces ; fracas- sare ..."
5. The South-west by Joseph Holt Ingraham (1835)
"... of school days—French cabarets—Cathedral—Exchange— Cornhill—A chain of light—A
fracas—Gens d'Armes—An affair of honour—Arrive at our hotel. ..."
6. A Century of Anecdote from 1760-1860 by John Timbs (1864)
"A fracas AT COURT. Walpole humorously describes the following romping scene : "
There has been a great fracas at Kensington: one of the Mesdames [George II. ..."
7. The Life and Correspondence of Rufus King: Comprising His Letters, Private by Rufus King (1900)
"King to C. King, also to Gore—fracas between Neuville and Canning—King to JA
King—Ministers' Quarrel settled—Solicitude lest the Constitution fail —King to ..."
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