Battue
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A form of hunting in which game is forced into the open by the beating of sticks on bushes etc. The game thus forced into the open. A hunt performed in this manner.
Bloodshed
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The shedding or spilling of blood.A slaughter; destruction of life, notably on a large scale.The shedding of one's own blood; specifically, the death of Christ.A bloodshot condition or appearance; an effusion of blood in the eye.
Example sentence: In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy and peace - and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.