sabred

English

Verb

sabred

1. simple past and past participle of sabre

Adjective

sabred (not comparable)

1. Equipped with a sabre or sabres.
   • 1769, Henry Brooke, The Fool of Quality‎^[1], volume 4, Dublin, page 211:

     […] there are Persons whose Loveliness is more formidable to me, than an Arrangement of sabred Hussars with their fierce looking Mustaches.

   • 1894, Helen H. Gardener, chapter 13, in An Unofficial Patriot‎^[2], Boston: Arena Publishing Company, page 183:

     To both, war was a mere name yet, a painted glory, a sabred, gold-laced parade before admiring, cheering crowds.

   • 1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan, “Titus is Christened,” in The Gormenghast Novels, Woodstock: The Overlook Press, 1995, p. 95,^[3]

     […] the doctor brandishing his teeth at the word “Titus” as though it were the signal for some romantic advance of sabred cavalry.

Anagrams

• ardebs, beards, breads, debars, serdab