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fleshes one's maiden sword

fleshes one's maiden sword is the third-person singular simple present indicative of flesh one's maiden sword.

Meaning of flesh one's maiden sword

Verb

flesh one's maiden sword (third-person singular simple present fleshes one's maiden sword, present participle fleshing one's maiden sword, simple past and past participle fleshed one's maiden sword)

  1. (dated, idiomatic) To experience or succeed in combat or struggle for the first time, as in the military or in politics.
    • Come brother Iohn, full brauely hast thou flesht / Thy mayden sword.c. 1597 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The History of Henrie the Fourth; […], quarto edition, London: […] P[eter] S[hort] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1598, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iv]

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Fleshes one's maiden sword is the third-person singular simple present indicative of flesh one's maiden sword.

Words near fleshes one's maiden sword in the dictionary

  1. fleshening
  2. fleshens
  3. flesher
  4. fleshers
  5. fleshes
  6. fleshes one's maiden sword
  7. fleshes out
  8. fleshfest
  9. fleshfests
  10. fleshflies
  11. fleshfly

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