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Synonyms for swashbuckler

Grammar : Noun
Spell : swosh-buhk-ler, swawsh-
Phonetic Transcription : ˈswɒʃˌbʌk lər, ˈswɔʃ-

Définition of swashbuckler

Origin :
  • 1550s, "blustering, swaggering fighting man" (earlier simply swash, 1540s), from swash "fall of a blow" (see swash) + buckler "shield." The original sense seems to have been "one who makes menacing noises by striking his or an opponent's shield."
  • noun pirate
Example sentences :
  • They kept a swashbuckler court in their little Manx kingdom.
  • Extract from : « The Little Manx Nation - 1891 » by Hall Caine
  • And what was that swashbuckler Feraud doing there, he wondered.
  • Extract from : « A Set of Six » by Joseph Conrad
  • He has in him more of the swashbuckler and the bully than of the courtier and the cavalier.
  • Extract from : « Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois » by George Chapman
  • I pick my company, and I refuse to drink with a swashbuckler and a roysterer.
  • Extract from : « The Cryptogram » by William Murray Graydon
  • He was a swashbuckler whom Callot would have loved to paint.
  • Extract from : « The Duke's Motto » by Justin Huntly McCarthy
  • Could they find a swashbuckler willing to assail the present incumbent?
  • Extract from : « The Unwilling Vestal » by Edward Lucas White
  • A brawler and a swashbuckler upon the hillsides was I.' Kim bit back a smile.
  • Extract from : « Kim » by Rudyard Kipling
  • When I came up I looked like a swashbuckler in one of Scudry's plays.
  • Extract from : « The Grey Cloak » by Harold MacGrath
  • The hand of every swashbuckler in the empire would be against him.
  • Extract from : « Tales of Old Japan » by Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford
  • But the "swashing blow" strikes home, and if the Unionist bucklers are beaten down thereby, let who likes cry "swashbuckler!"
  • Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charavari, Volume 93, October 8, 1887 » by Various

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