Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A participant in an old comic dance performed by maskers in mock-military guise, originally with sword and buckler, and later with a wooden sword or some other sham weapon; also, the dance itself, and the kind of mask or domino worn in it. The dance became a mere display of tumbling or acrobatic feats.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An old dance with swords and bucklers; a sword dance.
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- noun An old
dance withswords andbucklers .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The fact that matachin is also a perfectly good Spanish word meaning “butcher” or “hired assassin,” and that the place had been called that long before the railroad came through, did not seem to matter.
The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005
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The fact that matachin is also a perfectly good Spanish word meaning “butcher” or “hired assassin,” and that the place had been called that long before the railroad came through, did not seem to matter.
The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005
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‘quellio’ (cuello), a ruff or _neck_-collar; and ‘matachin’, the title of a sword-dance; these are all frequent in our early dramatists; and
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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