Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A short sword or heavy dagger in use among the Malays of Java, Sumatra, and the Malay peninsula.
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She wore wide trowsers of light blue silk, a fine scarlet shawl around her waist, in which was stuck a creeze with a richly ornamented handle.
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She wore wide trowsers of light blue silk, a fine scarlet shawl around her waist, in which was stuck a creeze with a richly ornamented handle.
The Surgeon's Daughter Walter Scott 1801
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