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duelist
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Duelist may refer to: A person who participates in duels Duelist (2005 film) , a 2005 South Korean martial arts film directed by Lee Myung-se The Duelist , an American collectible and trading card magazine The Duelist (2016 film) , a 2016 adventure drama ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, from duel + -ist .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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] ||
Usage examples of duelist.
The injured duelist never failed to heighten her color, particularly when she remembered how she had sat straddled across his legs in her chemise, all modesty cast to the four winds.
Medlow tended him than along comes a carriage to take your duelist away, to who knows where.
Later that same day, Deb was still so indignant about the cavalier treatment she had received at the hands of her injured duelist that while watching the minuets at the Assembly Room ball she was seen to openly scowl, a most unladylike expression opinioned the sticklers of Bath society, but to be excused in a Cavendish heiress worth not a guinea less than fifty thousand pounds.
Immediately, Deb stepped into the light without giving her wounded duelist a response and met Robert Thesiger halfway, eager that he should not find her conversing with a stranger in the shadows.
A fleeting glance over her shoulder confirmed that her injured duelist had indeed vanished into the night, just as magically as he had appeared at her side in the Octagon room.
With a sinking feeling, she wondered what tomorrow would bring, if indeed her injured duelist would ever return to Bath to take her for the promised carriage ride.
It was all the fault of her injured duelist and that kiss in the shadows of the Assembly Rooms.
Deb slowly turned from the window and came face to face with her injured duelist, dressed for riding in thigh tight buff breeches, dark blue riding frockcoat with embroidered cuffs and highly polished jockey boots.
Deb interrupted, not looking at her injured duelist for he was smiling at her in that way that made her feel ridiculously happy.
Jack, the wayward puppy and lastly at her injured duelist, all of whom stood in the open doorway.
Deb prodded gently, an eye on her injured duelist who was frowning, paused in mid-slice with knife and apple.
Two cars, each driven by a close friend of the duelist sitting in the rear, would pass in opposite directions on the highway or a busy metropolitan street.
In none of the accounts is either duelist said to have objected to the lack of consistency, nor does it play any further role in the events.
Why, one, Pepe Llula, the most famous duelist of his time, became the guardian of a cemetery just so, as gossip rumored, he could have some place to bury his opponents.
Thorian del Thorian, son of Thorian the duelist and Karin Roelke Thorsen, and the blood of heroes ran in his veins from both sides of his family.