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duellist
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Duelist \Du"el*ist\, n. [F. duelliste.] One who fights in single combat. [Written also duellist .] A duelist . . . always values himself upon his courage, his sense of honor, his fidelity and friendship. --Hume. [1913 Webster] ||
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n. a person who fights duels [syn: dueler , dueller , duelist ]
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of duelist English)
Usage examples of duellist.
First of all, he is an experienced duellist, while I have never been on the ground.
He could follow on the face of the former duellist, who had become the most ardent of Catholics and the most monomaniacal of old bachelors, twenty diverse expressions.
And you, Dorsenne, since you are afraid of wounding that gentleman, I will not prevent you from going to his house--personally, do you hear--to warn him that Monsieur Chapron, here present, has chosen for his first second a disagreeable person, an old duellist, anything you like, but who desires strict form, and, first of all, a correct call made upon us by them, in order to settle officially upon a rendezvous.
I did not wish to claim to be a duellist by telling you of my engagements.
Arkansas duellist at his foe, blindly seeking with a six inch blade to reach the fathom-deep life of the whale.
Each of the duellists was offered the chance to withdraw but both vowed to continue.
They were listening for the whistle agreed upon, when suddenly savage cries resounded in the air, accompanied by reports which certainly did not issue from the car where the duellists were.
Two ideas were opposed like duellists bent on the slaughter of one another.
Afternoon sun bronzed the duellists, pinned their shadows against the warm cobblestones of the castle courtyard.
Nor could I fail to understand how the late Colonel Jere Lansdale would have found need to be a duellist after he became her lover, even had he aforetime been unskilled in that difficult art.
They taught me likewise how to behave in the company of quarrelsome duellists, the society of whom ought to be avoided, unless we make up our mind to be constantly in the very teeth of danger.
And yet, O Fanatic, thou didst anathematize the Duellist as the Man of blood: what is the Assassin?
Victor and Colney had been champion duellists for the rosy and the saturnine since the former cheerfully slaved for a small stipend in the City of his affection, and the latter entered on an inheritance counted in niggard hundreds, that withdrew a briefless barrister disposed for scholarship from the forlornest of seats in the Courts.
They were listening for the whistle agreed upon, when suddenly savage cries resounded in the air, accompanied by reports which certainly did not issue from the car where the duellists were.
The crowd disposed itself on the fringe of the sward, and the duellists went forward, and set about the preparations.