broadswordsman
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Etymology edit
broadsword + -s- + -man
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
broadswordsman (plural broadswordsmen)
- (rare) A person who is skillful in wielding a broadsword.
- 1891, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Wisconsin Commandery, War Papers Read Before the Commandery of the State of Wisconsin: Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States: Volume 2[1], Burdick, Armitage & Allen, page 177:
- Thomas Stephens was the first Lieutenant Colonel of the Second Cavalry and succeeded Washburn as Colonel. He had been a soldier in the British army and was an expert broadswordsman.
- 1893, Lady Isabel Burton, The Life of Captain Sir Richd. F. Burton[2], D. Appleton, page 8:
- By noon the morning's work is got over, including the consumption of a cup of soup, the ablution without which no true believer is happy, and the obligations of Frankish toilette. Then comes a stroll to the fencing-school, kept by an excellent broadswordsman, an old German trooper.
- 1901, The Harvard Monthly: Volume 32[3], Students of Harvard College, page 134:
- His point of view is the exceedingly advantageous one obtained by an American birth, a French education and a long continued residence in England, and his manner may be described as that of a light fencer whose deftness and despatch are in graceful contrast to the exertions of the unwieldy broadswordsmen of literature.