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5 letters · 8 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun witty remark
noun a military action in which besieged troops burst forth from their position
noun a venture off the beaten path
originBorrowed from French saillie, from sailli, the past participle of the verb saillir (“to leap forth”), itself from Latin salīre (“to leap”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0