coup de force

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coup de force

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Borrowed from French coup de force.

noun coups de force

A sudden, violent act. On 26 August 1718, in a remarkable coup de force, Orléans crushed the political audacity and embryonic constitutional pretensions of the Parlement.

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@misc{coup_de_force_2026,
  title = {coup de force},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/coup%20de%20force},
  urldate = {2026-11-07}
}