foinery

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noun

Thrusting with the foil; fencing with the point of the sword, as distinguished from broadsword play.

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Meanings

nounfoinery (uncountable)
  1. obsoleteuncountableThrusting with the foil; fencing with the point of the sword, as distinguished from broadsword play.

    By chaunce, in Livias modest company; / When, after the god-saving ceremony, / For want of talke-stuffe, fals to foinery; / Out goes his rapier, and to Livia / He shewes the ward by puncta reversa

    1599, W. Kinsayder or Theriomastix [pseudonyms; John Marston], The Scourge of Villanie. […], London: […] I[ames] R[oberts], →OCLC; republished as G[eorge] B[agshawe] Harrison, editor, The Scourge of Villanie (The Bodley Head Quartos; 13), London: John Lane, The Bodley Head […]; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Company, 1925, →OCLC

Origin

From foin + -ery.

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Chicago

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