#516 foray

foray- a short raid or incursion; a first attempt or new undertaking; to raid or ravage a town, district

C14 from forrayen to pillage, from Old French forreier, from fuerre fodder

Her first literary foray is a story about making a new life and her subsequent fictions sustain a bare minimum of grief-stricken life.

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