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Definition of Riposting
1. riposte [v] - See also: riposte
Lexicographical Neighbors of Riposting
Literary usage of Riposting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia of Sport by Frederick George Aflalo, Hedley Peek (1897)
"It is a great mistake to raise the hand higher than the shoulder while riposting,
as some masters teach it, because the opponent being on the lunge, ..."
2. A New Manual of the Bayonet for the Army and Militia of the United States by John Cunningham Kelton (1862)
"Iii riposting from prime parry, keep the rammer up, and without changing the ...
In riposting from seconde parry, keep the lock-plate up, lower the hands, ..."
3. The Antiquary (1887)
"Their great departure from the Italian school consisted in parrying and riposting
in two movements, a feat now feasible with the lighter swords in vogue. ..."
4. Antiquary: A Magazine Devoted to the Study of the Past by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1887)
"Their great departure from the Italian school consisted in parrying and riposting
in two movements, a feat now feasible with the lighter swords in vogue. ..."
5. Fencing by Walter Herries Pollock (1897)
"When this is done—and many fencers are not ashamed to resort to this ignoble
device—-the riposting fencer must, as above stated, deliver his thrust with the ..."
6. Fencing by Walter Herries Pollock, F. C. Grove, Camille Prevost (1893)
"When this is done—and many fencers are not ashamed to resort to this ignoble
device—the riposting fencer must, as above stated, deliver his thrust with the ..."
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