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“salvo”
1. The firing of several weapons simultaneously; especially, at a formal military ceremony.
2. A sudden aggressive or vigorous act or a series of actions: "The political pardoning of the convicted criminal provoked a salvo of accusations against the judge."
3. Etymology: an alteration of salva (1591), "a simultaneous discharge of guns" from Italian salva, salue, volley, from Latin salve, "hail!"; literally, "be in good health" from the usual Roman greeting, regarded as the imperative grammatical form of salvere "to be in good health".
2. A sudden aggressive or vigorous act or a series of actions: "The political pardoning of the convicted criminal provoked a salvo of accusations against the judge."
3. Etymology: an alteration of salva (1591), "a simultaneous discharge of guns" from Italian salva, salue, volley, from Latin salve, "hail!"; literally, "be in good health" from the usual Roman greeting, regarded as the imperative grammatical form of salvere "to be in good health".
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