Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dagger.
- noun A spike-horn, or unbranched antler.
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Examples
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Gavroche, that is mon dogue, ma dague et ma digue, a slang expression of the Temple, which signifies my dog, my knife, and my wife, greatly in vogue among clowns and the red-tails in the great century when Moliere wrote and Callot drew.
Les Miserables 2008
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Rudolph carried his bonne dague de Tolède, and, when George Sand dined at a restaurant, her virtue was protected from tyrants by an elegant dagger.
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This weapon, upon which we have fallen so unexpectedly, is a true < i > dague , one of those worn by gentlemen in their belts during the sixteenth century.
Voyage au centre de la terre. English Jules Verne 1866
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There was besides, in Montparnasse's sentence, a literary beauty which was lost upon Gavroche, that is mon dogue, ma dague et ma digue, a slang expression of the Temple, which signifies my dog, my knife, and my wife, greatly in vogue among clowns and the red-tails in the great century when Moliere wrote and Callot drew.
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There was besides, in Montparnasse's sentence, a literary beauty which was lost upon Gavroche, that is mon dogue, ma dague et ma digue, a slang expression of the Temple, which signifies my dog, my knife, and my wife, greatly in vogue among clowns and the red-tails in the great century when Moliere wrote and Callot drew.
Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1843
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No dague-hilts, no buckles are to be worn, save those that he fashions; and -- an he live, and the House of York prosper -- verily, Master
The Last of the Barons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Those hildings have stolen my mantle (which, I perceive, by the way, is but a rustic garment, now laid aside for the super-tunic), and my hat and dague, nor have they left even a half groat to supply their place.
The Last of the Barons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Those hildings have stolen my mantle (which, I perceive, by the way, is but a rustic garment, now laid aside for the super - tunic), and my hat and dague, nor have they left even a half groat to supply their place.
The Last of the Barons — Volume 01 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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No dague-hilts, no buckles are to be worn, save those that he fashions; and -- an he live, and the House of York prosper -- verily,
The Last of the Barons — Volume 08 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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a fit of jealousy stabbed Aupusoi to death with a hand-dague (dagger); the first stroke opened his left side, the second his belly, and the third his breast; he never stirred, although he had a knife in his belt, and died instantly.
Pioneers in Canada Harry Hamilton Johnston 1892
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