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du⋅el

  [doo-uhl, dyoo-] noun, verb, -eled, -el⋅ing or (especially British) -elled, -el⋅ling.
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–noun
1. a prearranged combat between two persons, fought with deadly weapons according to an accepted code of procedure, esp. to settle a private quarrel.
2. any contest between two persons or parties.
–verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
3. to fight in a duel.
Origin:
1585–95; earlier duell < ML duellum, L: earlier form of bellum war, prob. maintained and given sense “duel” by assoc. with L duo two

Related forms:
du⋅el⋅is⋅tic; especially British, du⋅el⋅lis⋅tic, adjective
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Word Origin & History

duel 
c.1475, from M.L. duellum "combat between two persons," by association with L. duo "two," but originally from L. duellum "war," an Old Latin form of bellum. Retained in poetic and archaic language and apparently given a special meaning in M.L. or L.L. of "one-on-one combat" on fancied connection with duo "two."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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