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spadassinicides

spadassinicides is the plural of spadassinicide.

Meaning of spadassinicide

Noun

spadassinicide (plural spadassinicides)

  1. (rare) The act of coaxing someone, usually through insult, into initiating a swordsman's duel, and subsequently killing that person with superior skill so as to commit legal murder.
  2. (rare) One who performs such an act.
    • Challenges are flying right and left between these bully-swordsmen, these spadassinicides, and poor devils of the robe who have never learnt to fence with anything but a quill.1921, Rafael Sabatini, “Chapter VI”, in Scaramouche, book III

Questions about spadassinicides

What is spadassinicides the plural of?
Spadassinicides is the plural of spadassinicide.

Words near spadassinicides in the dictionary

  1. Spadaro
  2. Spadaros
  3. Spadas
  4. spadassin
  5. spadassinicide
  6. spadassinicides
  7. spadassins
  8. spaddle
  9. spaddles
  10. spade
  11. spade feet

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