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balestra

[buh-les-truh]

ba·les·tra

[buh-les-truh]
noun Fencing.
a jump toward the opponent followed immediately by a lunge.

Origin:
< Italian: literally, crossbow < Late Latin ballistra, variant of Latin ballista ballista
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an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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