coup de grâce

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A final blow or shot given to kill a wounded person or animal.
    — After we had row'd, or rather driven about a League and a Half, as we reckon'd it, a raging Wave, Mountain-like, came rolling a-ſtern of us, and plainly bad us expect the Coup-de-Grace.
  2. A remarkable finishing action. broadly

词形变化

coups de grâce plural coup de grace alternative coup-de-grace alternative

词源

Late 17th century. Borrowed from French coup de grâce (“finishing blow”). Originally referring to a merciful stroke putting a fatally wounded person out of misery or to the shot delivered to the head of a prisoner after facing a firing squad.
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