sabreurn.
/səˈbrəː/, /saˈbrəː/, U.S. /səˈbrər/, /sɑˈbrər/ 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 n.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > sword > specific type
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by branch of army > [noun] > mounted soldier > others
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1845 W. H. Maxwell Hints to Soldier 77 The humbler but no less gallant sabreur of New Ross.
1854 C. D. Badham Prose Halieutics 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.
1969 N. Freeling Tsing-Boum ix. 59 Castries the cavalryman, swaggering sabreur.
b. A sabre-fencer.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > fencing > [noun] > fencer > types of
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1927 L. Bertrand Cut & Thrust vi. 81 How to acquire this touch is a question the would-be sabreur has to answer.
1930 Morning Post 16 July 17/7 The school undoubtedly possess a natural sabreur in Woods.
1952 Fencing (‘Know the Game’ Ser.) 26 Sabreurs attack more often by means of a ‘Flèche’, than by means of a lunge.
1958 Oxf. Mag. 13 Mar. 377/1 The Cambridge sabreurs challenged our supposed superiority in the sabre.
1978 G. Wright Illustr. Handbk. Sporting Terms 35 (caption) The flèche attack demonstrated by a sabreur.
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