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badelaire

badelaire noun: a short sword with a heavy, curved blade and S-shaped quillions.

Noun

badelaire (plural badelaires)

  1. (historical) A short sword with a heavy, curved blade and S-shaped quillions.
    • I heard the ring of steel on stone, as if someone had struck one of the grave markers with a badelaire.1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter I, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 12
  2. This sword used as a heraldic charge.

Forms of badelaire

pluralbadelaires

Origin of badelaire

Borrowed from French badelaire, baudelaire, a corruption of earlier (14th century) baselard.

Questions about badelaire

What does badelaire mean?
Badelaire means a short sword with a heavy, curved blade and S-shaped quillions.
What part of speech is badelaire?
Badelaire is a noun.
What is the plural of badelaire?
The plural of badelaire is badelaires.

Words near badelaire in the dictionary

  1. Badeaus
  2. Badefodiyaa
  3. Badega
  4. Badegas
  5. Badelaide
  6. badelaire
  7. badelaires
  8. badelynge
  9. badelynges
  10. Bademus
  11. Baden

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