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Definition of Rapiers
1. rapier [n] - See also: rapier
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rapiers
Literary usage of Rapiers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Criminal Trials by David Jardine (1846)
"... partitions were struck with mallets to find out hollow places ; and drawn
rapiers were thrust into the chinks of the wainscots. The terror occasioned by ..."
2. Lean's Collectanea by Vincent Stuckey Lean, Julia Lucy Woodward (1902)
"rapiers for ripping people up. — Grose, Diet. No Irish need apply. You can't
trust an Irishman. ... rapiers ..."
3. The Sunday Magazine by Thomas Guthrie, William Garden Blaikie, Benjamin Waugh (1877)
"... play lightly with the gilded hilts of their rapiers ; every now and then their
heads bow in stately homage to some highly-favoured lady in the carriages ..."
4. A Select Collection of Old English Plays by William Carew Hazlitt, Robert Dodsley, Richard Morris (1874)
"Enter, for the Preface, a Lady very richly attired, representing London, having
two Angels before her, and two after her, with bright rapiers in their hands ..."
5. Recollections of Royalty: From the Death of William Rufus, in 1100, to that by Charles C[hadwicke] Jones (1828)
"Geun the xxii. yeere of her Highnesse Reigne, as is before expressed. God saue
the Queene. Another, relating to swords, daggers, rapiers, and bucklers, ..."
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