Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun fontenoy

1 sense of fontenoy

Sense 1
Fontenoy, Battle of Fontenoy -- (a battle in 1745 in which the French army under Marshal Saxe defeated the English army and their allies under the duke of Cumberland)
       INSTANCE OF=> pitched battle -- (a fierce battle fought in close combat between troops in predetermined positions at a chosen time and place)