Synonyms for scimiter

Grammar : Noun

Spell : sim-i-ter

Phonetic Transcription : ˈsɪm ɪ tər

Top 10 synonyms for scimiter

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Définition of scimiter

Origin : 1540s, cimiterie, from Middle French cimeterre (15c.) or Italian scimitarra, of uncertain origin. Turkish would be the expected source, but no such word has been found there. Perhaps from Persian shimshir (pronounced "shamsher," cf. Greek sampsera "a barbarian sword," from this source), but OED finds this "unsatisfactory as to form." Many early variations; the modern spelling is from influence of the Italian form of the word. Century Dictionary (1902) has simitar as preferred spelling.

As in sword : noun weapon

Example sentences :

How many of you have not died of the pest or under the scimiter of the Saracen!
Extract from : « The Pilgrim's Shell or Fergan the Quarryman » by Eugne Sue

Evidently a scimiter had performed this surgical operation, Pobloff mused.
Extract from : « Visionaries » by James Huneker

Now I was shivering with a deadly chill, and the thin keen air cut like a scimiter.
Extract from : « On the Mexican Highlands » by William Seymour Edwards

She ran along the gallery, dragging the sword with one hand and with the other clutching the shield and scimiter.
Extract from : « The Carter Girls' Mysterious Neighbors » by Nell Speed

There are scimiter and falchion from the days of Lionheart, inwrought with golden arabesque by fezzed wizards in Teheran.
Extract from : « The Army Mule and Other War Sketches » by Henry A. Castle

A man may have a brain as keen as a Damascus scimiter, and yet he is wanting without piety.
Extract from : « Colleges in America » by John Marshall Barker

"These were but fools," said the Jew as his scimiter fell upon a fourth of these half-armed men.
Extract from : « Ulric the Jarl » by William O. Stoddard

One of the Turks saw a chance to help his captain and made a vicious blow at his opponent with his scimiter.
Extract from : « Dewey and Other Naval Commanders » by Edward S. Ellis

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