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单词 escopette
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escopetten.

/ɛskəʊˈpɛt/
Forms: Also 1800s escopate, escopet.
Etymology: < Spanish escopeta (assimilated to French escopette) musket, < Italian schioppetto, scoppietto, < schioppo (by metathesis scoppio) noise, explosion, Latin sclopus, stlopus the noise produced by a blow on the inflated cheek (in medieval Latin ‘a gun’).
U.S.
A sort of carbine, used chiefly in Mexico and the adjoining parts of the U.S.
ΚΠ
1805 Z. M. Pike Acct. Exped. Sources Mississippi (1810) ii. 201 50 dragoons and 50 mounted militia of the province, armed in the same manner, viz., Lances, escopates and pistols.
1850 B. Taylor Eldorado (1862) xxxiii. 336 A ranchero, carrying an escopette and three turkeys..offered his horse in exchange.
1851 M. Reid Rifle Rangers xx A dozen..men were..firing their escopettes and pistols as they came down.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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