Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In fencing, the ninth and last thrust, usually aimed at the side.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Fencing) A thrust in the side.

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  • noun fencing A thrust in the side.

Etymologies

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French

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Examples

  • "Very good," the vicomte admitted, lunging in flanconade.

    The Grey Cloak Harold MacGrath 1901

  • "ah!" when the point was nicely avoided; there were lunges in quart, there were cuts over and under, thrusts in flanconade and tierce, feint and double-feint, and sudden disengagements.

    The Grey Cloak Harold MacGrath 1901

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