arming sword

noun

A sword seen as a being a part of someone's set of arms or military accoutrements; a warrior's regimental or official sword.

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nounarming sword (plural arming swords)

plural arming swords

  1. historicalA sword seen as a being a part of someone's set of arms or military accoutrements; a warrior's regimental or official sword.

    Lo, to that shore one in an auncient gowne, / Whose hoarie locks great grauitie did crowne, / Holding in hand a goodly arming sword, / By fortune came [...].

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
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