talwarn.
/ˈtʌlwɑː/ An (Indian) sabre.
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a1827 W. Hickey Mem. (1960) xv. 252 In about half an hour after the first grand attack had thus been made, an alarm was given that the mob armed with tulwars (scimitars) had forced the sentries.
1834 A. Prinsep Baboo I. viii. 125 With my tulwar unsheathed on my arm, I moved to the edge of the tope.
1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. III. xi. 207 I just caught the flash of his tulwar, and thought it was all up.
1892 J. Payn Mod. Dick Whittington I. 195 The tulwar of the Rajah of Bundlecumbad: the scabbard he described as a triumph of Eastern decoration.
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