noun, verb
noun (plural sallies)
1 a remark that is intended to entertain or amuse sb:
Everyone waited for his next sally.
2 a sudden attack by an enemy
verb (sallies, sallying, sallied, sallied)
PHRASALVERBS
sally forth / out (old-fashioned or literary) to leave a place in a determined or enthusiastic way:
After lunch she sallied forth in the snow for a short walk.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for sally is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does sally appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — sally appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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