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  • noun Plural form of spadassin.

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Examples

  • When the session rose, there were a dozen spadassins awaiting him in the vestibule, and this time the men of his own party were less concerned to guard him.

    Scaramouche Rafael Sabatini 1912

  • He looked in the direction of that voice, proceeding from the group of spadassins amid the Blacks across the Piste, and he smiled.

    Scaramouche Rafael Sabatini 1912

  • Now bravos, swashbucklers, spadassins, and such soldiers of fortune are like children in this regard -- as indeed in many another -- that they love a good yarn well spun.

    The Duke's Motto A Melodrama 1898

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