Definitions
Etymologies
- From French épée. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“It sounds to me like the only thing wrong with your epee is your club.”
“The epee is a heavy fencing sword, and the entire body is a target area.”
“If I have to use a muscle-powered weapon I’ll stick to a light stabbing sword epee or rapier.”
“Nothing would have made me happier than if Michelle had run Curtis through with an "epee" or hacked off his limbs with a "saber". posting and discussion policies if you haven't already.”
“Worse though is the picture of the prancing prig with the epee.”
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“After an awkward trial fencing lesson with the team's male coach "he had to ask my dad if he could touch me to help show me the right positions", Ibtihaj joined the team, fencing the epee weapon for her first two years.”
“I was heartened to see that our weapons came with blunt tips—Mr. Cohen had brought along both sabers and epees, explaining that with the saber you can hit only above the waist, but with the epee the whole body is fair game, thus more closely resembling dueling of old.”
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“Men's team epee, eliminations, quarterfinals and semifinals; Fencing Hall, 9: 00 a. m.-4: 50 p.m.”
“Men's team epee bronze medal match, gold medal match, 6-9: 20 p.m. Field hockey — men”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘epee’.
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SPOR - Olympic glossary
weightlift, orbitale, figure skate, speed skate, synchronizer, equestrian sport, bobsleigh, starting block, diesis, ligne, piste, water ski and 521 more...
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Morthalion's Words
supercilious, kvetch, kvass, splurge, erroneous, pugnacious, macabre, gauche, conglomerate, abyss, paraphernalia, kleptomania and 285 more...
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cross words
the good ole boys of the nyt crossword puzzle
oleo, oreo, stlo, amie, ares, eros, erato, sloe, ogee, apse, enola, ecru and 94 more...
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Discovered Scrabble Words
Oh, that little smiling teacher tile in my Scrabble app. He teaches me so much.
lovage, khaf, tititi, leet, ketol, fon, ono, dunelike, braw, bocci, lutz, fano and 132 more...
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bobfet1's Words
anathema, schadenfreude, sturm und drang, dadaism, serendipitous, obfuscate, kibosh, salacious, misogyny, kismet, madrasah, circumlocute and 129 more...
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avawake's list
elpis, transient, anon, remeet, orerry, fitfull, benediction, infinitum, ad, ananym, halcyon, bird and 93 more...
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Monovocalics
Words that have only one of the vowels. On this list I include only words with at least three vowels. When I first started the list, if a word had several forms, I generally listed only the one wit...
syzygy, mirific, cumulus, homolog, monocot, bedewed, jezebel, referee, bikini, minikin, locomotor, terebenthene and 2359 more...
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SomeOldDoor's list
Lovely words.
clover, cedar, bromide, glyph, belfry, glance, vehemently, well, flourish, plaintive, clarion, element and 169 more...
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the armourer
Armour and weapons, and the occasional soldier.
gauntlet, vambrace, ballista, arbalest, trebuchet, sabre, epee, foil, flamberge, katana, dagger, switchblade and 80 more...
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Is this a dagger I see before me?
Or a kris? A rapier? A double-bladed hackmonger?
interesting bladesdagger, sword, knife, snee, snickersnee, bayonet, blade, kris, bolo, katana, rapier, lance and 41 more...
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Tomanian
humdudgeon, bounden, limitrophe, autarkic, bemute, janissary, camarilla, bastion, barbican, machicolation, abacinate, donjon and 28 more...
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Cold Steel
A list of fencing terms, by no means comprehensive.
epee, foil, sabre, buckler, shield, rapier, dagger, hilt, tang, fleche, sabreur, parry and 26 more...
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camgurl's Words
discombobulated, anti-macassar, amok, bifurcate, dado, gorgon, substrate, matrix, succulent, surreptitious, hijinks, foolhardy and 38 more...
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chocolate_munching_me's list
cerise, limnology, prestidigitation, epee, ourebi, wainages, klipspringer, lechwe, edentate, edentate, insouciant
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Vowel Rich
Scrabble List: vowel dumps
aeon, aero, agee, agio, ague, aide, akee, alee, alae, aloe, amia, amie and 67 more...
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4 letters, three the same
Tweets
Looking for tweets for epee.

reesetee *snort* Mar 25, 2009
sionnach When Begoña chowed down on the delicious seafood paella, her lips started to puff up alarmingly. Fortunately Juanjo had brought along his epee pen, and was able to inject her right there table-side, in front of the bovine, masticating Catalan diners. Mar 25, 2009
vanishedone WordNet has a definition for this form but not for épée... Mar 25, 2009