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Definition of Katanas
1. katana [n] - See also: katana
Lexicographical Neighbors of Katanas
Literary usage of Katanas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Impressions of Ukiyo-ye: The School of the Japanese Colour-print Artists by Dora Amsden (1905)
"Cruel and bloodthirsty are the blades of their relentless katanas, which once
unsheathed must be slaked in human blood, and their garments, slashed into ..."
2. An Universal History: From the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time by George Sale, George Psalmanazar, Archibald Bower, George Shelvocke, John Campbell, John Swinton (1759)
"... at the found of a whittle, all rofe, put on white frocks, that they might know
one another, and lighted wax- candles : then, drawing their katanas, ..."
3. A Catalogue Raisonnée [sic] of Oriental Manuscripts in the Library of the by William Taylor (1857)
"The author then advises all the people of the world, those who are
bich'katanas (mendicants) and go a begging to other gods, warning them not to do
so : but ..."
4. Indian Biography: Or, An Historical Account of Those Individuals who Have by Benjamin Bussey Thatcher (1837)
"They brought the katanas into their country, to lake [iart with them, after they
had concerted ill designs against us. We have done less than either the ..."
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