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- noun fencing A
blow from theright side to theleft .
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Examples
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He strutted in his stately fashion over to where a rapier and dagger hung upon the wall, and began to make passes at the door, darting in and out, warding off imaginary blows with his poniard, and stamping his feet with little cries of "Punto! reverso! stoccata! dritta! mandritta!" and all the jargon of the fencing schools.
The Refugees Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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