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The married women hastened to remove the debandade of the banquet.
Hung Lou Meng 2003
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The married women hastened to remove the debandade of the banquet.
Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao
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_debandade_ among the Jack-tars -- leaving many a merry deck in forlorn and silent solitude.
The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea Mayne Reid 1850
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If I had not placed my troops in a position where they were obliged to fight for their lives, but had allowed each man to follow his own discretion, there would have been a general debandade, and it would have been impossible to do anything with them. "
The Art of War 6th cent. B.C. Sunzi
chained_bear commented on the word debandade
"fr. a la debandade, "helter skelter." (citation in list description)
October 9, 2008