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‖ sabreur|sabrœr|
[Fr.; agent-n., f. sabrer to sabre.]
a. One who fights with a sabre; usually applied to a cavalry soldier distinguished rather for bravery than for skill in war. See also beau sabreur.
1845W. H. Maxwell Hints to Soldier 77 The humbler but no less gallant sabreur of New Ross. 1854Badham Halieut. 418 Our expert sabreur rushes to the conflict, and, carefully avoiding the sweep of his opponent's tremendous tail, soon effects his purpose, by stabbing the luckless leviathan at all points. 1969N. Freeling Tsing Boum ix. 59 Castries the cavalryman, swaggering sabreur.
b. A sabre-fencer.
1927L. Bertrand Cut & Thrust vi. 81 How to acquire this touch is a question the would-be sabreur has to answer. 1952Fencing (‘Know the Game’ Ser.) 26 Sabreurs attack more often by means of a ‘Flèche’, than by means of a lunge. 1958Oxf. Mag. 13 Mar. 377/1 The Cambridge sabreurs challenged our supposed superiority in the sabre. 1978G. Wright Illustr. Handbk. Sporting Terms 35 (caption) The flèche attack demonstrated by a sabreur. |