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单词 maître darmes
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maître d'armesn.

Brit. /ˌmeɪtrə ˈdɑːm/, /ˌmɛtrə ˈdɑːm/, U.S. /ˈmeɪtrə ˈˌdɑrm/, /ˈmeɪdər ˈˌdɑrm/
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French maître d'armes.
Etymology: < French maître d'armes (late 17th cent.) < maître teacher (compare master n.1) + d' de prep. + armes arms, weapons (compare arms n.). Middle French maistre is used in this specific sense from 1461, and maistre en fait d'armes from 1538. Compare master-at-arms n.Not fully naturalized in English.
A fencing instructor.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > fencing > [noun] > fencing-master
master, teacher of fence1533
sa-sa man1607
fencing-mastera1648
pushing master1699
maître d'armes1830
1830 H. Angelo Reminisc. II. 220 Now no longer maître d'armes, having grounded my arms, I cannot have any selfish motives to be my own trumpeter.
1894 G. Du Maurier Trilby i. 31 Taffy..was a match for any maître d'armes in the whole French army.
1908 S. J. Weyman Wild Geese vi. 78 His whole attention was bent upon the Maître d'Armes.
1932 Times Lit. Suppl. 24 Mar. 220/2 He will by then be lost in a maze of technical terms..and will fly to a maître d'armes for instruction.
1956 J. D. Aylward Eng. Master of Arms ix. 110 He was..abreast of the progress made during the seventeenth century by the great French maîtres d'armes.
1961 F. C. Avis Sportsman's Gloss. 194 Maître d'Armes, a master of arms or fencing master.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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