rapier
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pi noun
1.
a small sword, especially of the 18th century, having a narrow blade and used for thrusting.
2.
a longer, heavier sword, especially of the 16th and 17th centuries, having a double-edged blade and used for slashing and thrusting.
Related forms
ra·pi·ered, adjective
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| —n | |
| 1. | a long narrow two-edged sword with a guarded hilt, used as a thrusting weapon, popular in the 16th and 17th centuries |
| 2. | a smaller single-edged 18th-century sword, used principally in France |
| [C16: from Old French espee rapiere, literally: rasping sword; see | |
| 'rapier-like | |
| —adj | |
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Word Origin & History
rapier
1553, from M.Fr. rapière, from O.Fr. espee rapiere "long, pointed two-edged sword" (1474), in which the adj. is of uncertain origin, perhaps from derisive use of raspiere "poker, scraper."
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Example sentences
Each one took something from the heap-one a morion, another a rapier, a third a cross-hilted dagger.
Perhaps reality lies somewhere between the rapier thrust and the sympathetic ear.
If the prof can skewer me with his rapier red pen, so be it.
We must not suppose that the rapier fight of the sixteenth century resembled modern fencing.
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