stoccado

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noun

A stab with a pointed weapon.

OriginItalian stoccata →
Scrabble 13
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Meanings

nounstoccado (plural stoccados or stoccadoes)

plural stoccados · plural stoccadoes

  1. obsoleteA stab with a pointed weapon.

    Yet will not such leave to lift-up their joyned hands to heaven, give them but a stoccado [translating coup d'espée] on their breast […]

    1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter XII, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
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    [William] Page. I haue heard the French-man hath good skill in his Rapier. / [Robert] Shal[low] Tut ſir: I could haue told you more: In theſe times you ſtand on diſtance: your Paſſes, Stoccado’s, and I knovv not vvhat: […]

    c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 45, column 1

Origin

  1. Italianstoccata
  2. Englishstoccado

From Italian stoccata.

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