illusive = elusive

[Jonathan Lighter]

I've seen this before, probably within the last few months :

  2003 John A. Lynn _Battle_ (rev.ed.) (Cambridge, Mass.: Westview) 321: In Vietnam we fought a lightly-armed and illusive enemy along ill-defined and shifting lines--or none at all.

  JL


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