belle sabreuse

plural belles sabreuses

1. A gallant swordswoman; a dashing female adventurer.

   Quite sexy, those scars, though, in a belle sabreuse sort of way.

   1998, Luke Jennings, Beauty Story, Hutchinson, page 161

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   The newspaper accounts show that several attempts were made, and not without success in two or three instances, to deprive la belle sabreuse of the points she had made, and to place her hors de combat.

   1896 March, Claxton Wilstach, “The Señorita of the Sword”, in Godey's Magazine, volume CXXXII, number 789, pages 257–260

   Exhausted, I canter through postpandrial naps atop a Senegalese camel, and in full beau geste. "En avant, ma belle sabreuse!" shouts Tintin into the teeth of the wind.

   2006, Louise Mushikiwabo with Jack Kramer, Rwanda Means the Universe, St. Martins Press, page 143