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Date: 1300-1400
Language: Old French
Origin: affreer 'to surprise and frighten', from Vulgar Latin exfridare

affray

 noun
     
Related topics: Crime
af‧fray [uncountable and countable] law
SCC a noisy fight in a public place, or when someone is involved in such a fight
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