Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A long sword in which the forte of the blade is very broad and the foible very narrow and slight, the change being abrupt, with a rapid curve or slope on each side. This weapon came into use toward the end of the seventeenth century.
Wiktionary
Etymologies
- French (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The result of this duel Professor Matthews does not tell, but if the wag's _colichemarde_ was as swift and penetrating as his wit, we may surmise that his opponent of the Code Napoléon and the code duello had a fourth shirt spoiled.”
“_colichemarde_ with its fenestrated guard -- what a superb specimen of handicraft! ”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘colichemarde’.
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Mollusque's miscellany
A mixture of words that I like or have commented on, along with ones parked here so they'd be listed somewhere or remind me of lists I want to make.
oranger, monographer, preoccupied, bu, bobization, coinventor, tetrapyloctomy, borgmannian, suspercollate, manhug, mancrush, obituarist and 604 more...
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Brochettes of Random Palavery
Another of my random palavery lists for words or phrases that haven't yet found a place in one or more of my other lists.
nonexclusivity, adaptationist, paxillin, adduct, unblushingly cribbed, ptomaïne, microsievert, millisievert, too big to jail, tastemaker, tinsmithing, Nimzo-Indian and 1616 more...
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ragnvaeig's Words
incarnadine, percolation, simulacrum, promethean, enchiridion, lugubriousness, adamantine, verisimilitude, cumulonimbus, silvern, sophister, hex and 50 more...
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