Meanings
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of sabre
- not comparableEquipped with a sabre or sabres.
1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan, “Titus is Christened,” in The Gormenghast Novels, Woodstock: The Overlook Press, 1995, p. 95, […] the doctor brandishing his teeth at the word “Titus” as though it were the signal for some romantic advance of sabred cavalry.
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[…] there are Persons whose Loveliness is more formidable to me, than an Arrangement of sabred Hussars with their fierce looking Mustaches.
1769, Henry Brooke, The Fool of Quality, volume 4, Dublin, page 211To both, war was a mere name yet, a painted glory, a sabred, gold-laced parade before admiring, cheering crowds.
1894, Helen H. Gardener, chapter 13, in An Unofficial Patriot, Boston: Arena Publishing Company, page 183
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