badelaire

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noun

A short sword with a heavy, curved blade and S-shaped quillions.

OriginFrench badelaire →
First used 17th c.Scrabble 12
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Meanings

nounbadelaire (plural badelaires)

plural badelaires

  1. historicalA short sword with a heavy, curved blade and S-shaped quillions.First known use 17th c.

    I heard the ring of steel on stone, as if someone had struck one of the grave markers with a badelaire.

    1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter I, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 12
  2. governmentThis sword used as a heraldic charge.

Origin

  1. Frenchbadelaire
  2. Englishbadelaire

Borrowed from French badelaire, baudelaire, a corruption of earlier (14th century) baselard.

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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