Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who fights in single combat; one who practises or promotes the practice of dueling.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who fights in single combat.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who fights a
duel .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who fights duels
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Examples
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A sampling -- including my most favorite, on that "duelist" religion founded by (ironically enough!)
Archive 2007-06-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2007
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A sampling -- including my most favorite, on that "duelist" religion founded by (ironically enough!)
Non Campus Mentis Mary Kate Hurley 2007
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He was a soldier, a duelist, a lawyer, and a politician.
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With his life declared to be hanging by a thread, the fading duelist now urged his erstwhile adversary to flee the taverntaking pains to insist that he had acquitted himself honorablyand even offered his own carriage for the getaway.
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I suppose one can try, like a duelist at dawn, to pick a time and place to go, by own hand like dialing pre sets on serious satellite bands;
Calvin Hangs Dennis Mahagin 2011
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Forrest's obituary says of his pre-War years, "He was known to his acquaintances as a man of obscure origin and low associations, a shrewd speculator, negro trader, and duelist..."
Burns Strider: License Plates, Heritage and Fellow Mississippians Burns Strider 2011
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A man in a wheelchair would likely be considered a weak duelist, but would very likely win a sword fight with a blind man.
You Still Never Solved The Question of Who To Fight | ATTACKERMAN 2009
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The second duelist, although less seriously wounded, was bleeding from a gash to his thigh.
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Their main contact on New Amazonia is Lesa Pretoria, a master duelist with a few reservations about her own female-centric society.
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Forrest's obituary says of his pre-War years, "He was known to his acquaintances as a man of obscure origin and low associations, a shrewd speculator, negro trader, and duelist..."
Burns Strider: License Plates, Heritage and Fellow Mississippians Burns Strider 2011
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