swordsman
IPA: sˈɔrdzmʌn
noun
- A person skilled at using swords in sport or combat; a fencer.
- A person who fights with a sword.
- (informal) A man who is a skillful or enthusiastic practitioner of sexual intercourse.
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Examples of "swordsman" in Sentences
- Throwing dust in the eye of a swordsman is harder than it looks (and more cliche).
- Although neither of the combatants was known as a swordsman, épées were chosen as the weapons.
- No, by swordsman she meant someone who used a heavy broadsword in battle, slashing and hacking.
- He was known as a swordsman the nobleman said, boasting a little; he’d picked quarrels with certain men on her behalf, and killed them.
- But the swordsman is going to have a tendency to frame issues as a series of advances and retreats, parries, ripostes, feints and strikes.
- Cyrano was a swashbuckling swordsman from the Gascon area of France (similar to the character D’Artagnan by Dumas) and he fought many duels.
- The swordsman was a master of blades, not knots, but he bound the wrists and legs of the Visioness securely enough with cord drawn from the richly brocaded curtains that framed one entryway.
- But the swordsman is really a semi retired computer scientist of the first rank, the sword is tipped with a wormhole a la Morgaine's Changeling, and the talking cat is really the avatar of a planet-sized AI ...
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