单词 | badelaire |
释义 | badelairen. Now chiefly historical. A short cutting sword or dagger with a broad, slightly curving blade. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > side arms > sword > [noun] > scimitar scimitar1530 shamsheer1634 Turk1638 badelaire1693 ataghan1813 yataghan1819 1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. Prol. 5 They set Edges upon Cimeters, Cutlasses, Badelans [1737 Badelairs], Back-swords, [etc.]. 1825 T. D. Fosbroke Encycl. Antiq. II. xviii. 799 The Badelaire, or Baudelaire, was a little portative knife. 1867 H. Godwin Eng. Archæologist's Handbk. 261 Temp. Rich. II, civilians wore swords called baselards, or badelaires. 1980 G. Wolfe Shadow of Torturer (1983) i. 12 I heard the ring of steel on stone, as if someone had struck one of the grave markers with a badelaire. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1693 |
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