Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Fencing.
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Examples
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She was a good runner, but was especially successful with the fence-play that baffled the Coyotes.
Animal Heroes Ernest Thompson Seton 1903
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In particular, there is an almost unparalleled, a certainly unsurpassed, activity in metaphysical speculation, a fence-play of thought astonishing in its accuracy and style.
The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) George Saintsbury 1889
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