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badelaires

badelaires is the plural of badelaire.

Meaning of badelaire

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.

Questions about badelaires

What is badelaires the plural of?
Badelaires is the plural of badelaire.

Words near badelaires in the dictionary

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

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