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Daring and romantic adventurer
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swashbuckler
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Swashbuckler is an early fighting game for the Apple II family of computers, created by Paul Stephenson and published by Datamost in 1982. The player controls a sword-wielding swashbuckler who must fight and dispatch various attackers. Combat occurs in ...
Wiktionary
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n. 1 A swordsman or fencer who engages in showy or extravagant sword play. 2 A daring adventurer. 3 A kind of period adventure story with flashy action and lighthearted tone.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Swashbuckler \Swash"buc`kler\, n. A bully or braggadocio; a swaggering, boastful fellow; a swaggerer. --Milton.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a reckless impetuous irresponsible person [syn: daredevil , madcap , hothead , lunatic , harum-scarum ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also swash-buckler , 1550s, "blustering, swaggering fighting man" (earlier simply swash , 1540s), from swash "fall of a blow" (see swash ) + buckler "shield." The original sense seems to have been "one who makes menacing noises by striking his or an opponent's ...
Usage examples of swashbuckler.
One that captures the energy of the old swashbuckler movie, and does so with a knowing wink at its own artifice.
Neelix smirked, aware that he had not just recovered lost territory, he had forged ahead in his plan to prove to the Star fleeters that he was as good a swashbuckler as he often claimed.
Larry swiftly responded in kind, for from the moment he had pulled the mask of being a fool from the painter and shown him to be a real artist, he had felt drawn toward this impecunious swashbuckler of the arts.
Jack about his business by literal force of arms, and entered into an alliance with Ned Higgs, a notorious swashbuckler, the captain of a gang of young ruffians who at this date were giving much trouble to the Clerkenwell police.
There he found the great pirate established at an ordinary, with a little court of ragamuffins and swashbucklers gathered about him, all talking very loud, and drinking healths in raw rum as though it were sugared water.
He commenced to tell her the whole disasterous affair, not the romantic tale of a swashbuckler or courageous knight a girl like Marianne would like to hear.
Napoleon and Josephine, Oliver Cromwell, Robespierre, Dick Turpin,the greatest highwayman of all time--these and innumerable other names and the events that they shaped emerged from history as full-blooded characters in stories of intrigue, crime, passion, and adventure, with supporting casts of swashbucklers, cavaliers, courtesans, dutiful servants, dedicated ministers, and many others.