poignard

• The arms chosen were a sharp-pointed sword or rapier and a poignard, while the armour used included a throat-piece (gorgerin) and a secrete. —  Bayard: The Good Knight Without Fear And Without Reproach
• One poignard, in the hand of a Blood Poet, is more dangerous than a dozen armed troopers bearing grasers or stringwhips. —  Aeon One
• Pale lights gleamed in many doorways, for the dancers were dressing and painting themselves for the dances of the body, of the hands, of the poignard, and of the handkerchief. —  Halima And The Scorpions 1905
• She went on to detail the terms of separation, making the most of everything against her husband, and wound up with a sentence which must have pierced his heart like a poignard. —  A Forgotten Hero Not for Him
• Disease had struck her at first like a sharp poignard, but life flowed away from the wound without much after suffering. —  Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel

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