cinqueda

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A form of cinquedea — A short sword with a heavy blade developed in northeastern Italy during the Renaissance, often richly ornamented.

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Meanings

nouncinqueda (plural cinquedas)

plural cinquedas

  1. alternativeAlternative form of cinquedea.

    The cinqueda might be used in conjunction with a full-length sword in sword and dagger play. Also, called an anelace, […]

    1995, Nick Evangelista, The Encyclopedia of the Sword, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 112
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    Thaddeus Mann hadn't even bothered to take the knife away from him, though he was curious to see the legendary, triangular-bladed cinqueda.

    1980, William M. James, Slow Dying, →ISBN

    She helped him put his heavy cinqueda onto his military belt. She pulled his cloak—which she had also made—from their sleeping pile. It was made of hundreds of black squirrel pelts stitched together invisibly and lined with bright red ...

    2014, Miles Cameron, The Fell Sword, Orbit, →ISBN

    Arms — Per pale argent and azure, on the first three pallets sable, all within a bordure of the last. Crest — A cubit arm erect, vested azure, cuffed argent, holding in the hand a Cinqueda sword, both proper.

    2020, Susan Morris, Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage 2019, eBook Partnership, →ISBN, page 4618
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Chicago

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