salle d'armes

noun

A hall or room used for fencing.

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nounsalle d'armes (plural salles d'armes)

plural salles d'armes

  1. A hall or room used for fencing.

    To the fencing masters and the thousands of amateurs frequenting the salles d'armes of Paris, Saint-Georges personified the art of fencing...

    2006, Gabriel Banat, The Chevalier de Saint-Georges: virtuoso of the sword and the bow

    Synonyms: salle

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA hall or room used for fencing.

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Origin

  1. Frenchsalle d'armes
  2. Englishsalle d'armes

From French salle d'armes.

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