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He stooped and picked up the weapon -- an elegant instrument well adorned with silver on the hilt and sheath; caught it at the point, and, leaning the hilt upon his left wrist in the manner of the courtier slightly exaggerated, and true to the delicacies of the _salle-d'armes_, proffered it to the owner.
Doom Castle Neil Munro
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These heroes of the salle-d'armes have not the commonest manners.
The Newcomes William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
qroqqa commented on the word salle-d'armes
Prowess and grace of the invulnerable
Courteous horseman, the silk-shirted fencer
Far from the salle-d'armes, scraping and ringing:
—Robert Fitzgerald, 'Adulescentia'
March 23, 2009