colichemarde

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_colichemarde_ with its fenestrated guard -- what a superb specimen of handicraft! '

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  1. 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.

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  • 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 CHAPTER LVIII FROM ANTIQUES TO PIRATES The numerous antique shops of the French quarter, with their gray, undulating floors and their piled-up, dusty litter of old furniture, plate, glass, and china, and the equally numerous old book stores, with their piles of French publications, their shadowy corners, their pleasant ancient bindings and their stale smell, are peculiarly reminiscent of similar establishments in Paris That Eugene Field knew these shops well we have reason to know by at least two of his poems. —  American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home'
  • _colichemarde_ with its fenestrated guard -- what a superb specimen of handicraft! ' —  The Mummy's Foot
 

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  1. French, also colismarde; said to be a corruption of the name of Count Königsmark.
 

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