gladiature
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin gladiatura.
Noun
editgladiature (plural gladiatures)
- swordplay; gladiatorial contest
- 1654, Edmund Gayton, Pleasant Notes upon Don Quixote:
- Nay in their amphitheatricall gladiatures, the lives of captives lay at the mercy of the Vulgar
References
edit“gladiature”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.