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rapier
[ rey-pee-er ]
noun
- a small sword, especially of the 18th century, having a narrow blade and used for thrusting.
- a longer, heavier sword, especially of the 16th and 17th centuries, having a double-edged blade and used for slashing and thrusting.
rapier
/ ˈreɪpɪə /
noun
- a long narrow two-edged sword with a guarded hilt, used as a thrusting weapon, popular in the 16th and 17th centuries
- a smaller single-edged 18th-century sword, used principally in France
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Derived Forms
- ˈrapier-ˌlike, adjective
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Other Words From
- rapi·ered adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of rapier1
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Example Sentences
Rapier shopped the script around, but thankfully no one wanted to pick it up.
A rapier and a dagger found on the Thames foreshore show us that swordfights routinely broke out on the streets of London.
A leather swordbelt, gold-embroidered at the edges, carried a long steel-halted rapier in a leather scabbard chaped with steel.
As you are doubtless aware, between civilians the small-sword, the rapier and the pistol are what are usually employed.
Half frantic, I dashed forward, snatching as I did so a rapier from the wall, the only weapon handy.
But the next moment he was on his feet, his rapier firmly gripped once more, for all that his arm still felt a trifle numbed.
Routledge, with a studio in Rome, and having been educated at a German university, is familiar with the use of the rapier.
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