bellique
French
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editbellique (plural belliques)
- (obsolete, relational) war
- 1555, Nostradamus, Les Prophéties, 35th quatrain of the 1st Century, reputated to have predicted the death of king Henri II of France in a tournament.
- Le lion jeune le vieux surmontera ;
En champ bellique par singulier duelle,
Dans cage d’or ses yeux lui crèvera,
Deux plaies une, puis mourir, mort cruelle.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1555, Nostradamus, Les Prophéties, 35th quatrain of the 1st Century, reputated to have predicted the death of king Henri II of France in a tournament.