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foinery

foinery noun: thrusting with the foil; fencing with the point of the sword, as distinguished from broadsword play.

Noun

foinery (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Thrusting with the foil; fencing with the point of the sword, as distinguished from broadsword play.
    • By chaunce, in Livias modest company; / When, after the god-saving ceremony, / For want of talke-stuffe, fals to foinery; / Out goes his rapier, and to Livia / He shewes the ward by puncta reversa1599, W. Kinsayder or Theriomastix [pseudonyms; John Marston], The Scourge of Villanie. […], London: […] I[ames] R[oberts], →OCLC; republished as G[eorge] B[agshawe] Harrison, editor, The Scourge of...

Origin of foinery

From foin + -ery.

Questions about foinery

What does foinery mean?
Foinery means thrusting with the foil; fencing with the point of the sword, as distinguished from broadsword play.
What part of speech is foinery?
Foinery is a noun.

Words near foinery in the dictionary

  1. foilsmen
  2. foin
  3. foind
  4. foine
  5. foined
  6. foinery
  7. foining
  8. foins
  9. Foism
  10. foison
  11. foisonless

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