Crossword clues for swashbuckler
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Swashbuckler \Swash"buc`kler\, n.
A bully or braggadocio; a swaggering, boastful fellow; a
swaggerer.
--Milton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
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.
WordNet
n. a reckless impetuous irresponsible person [syn: daredevil, madcap, hothead, lunatic, harum-scarum]
Wikipedia
A swashbuckler is a heroic archetype in European adventure literature that is typified by the use of a sword and chivalric ideals. The archetype also became common as a film genre.
Swashbuckler is a romantic adventure film produced in the U.S. by Universal Studios and released in 1976. The film is based on the story “The Scarlet Buccaneer”, written by Paul Wheeler and adapted for the screen by Jeffery Bloom. It was directed by James Goldstone and was rated PG.
The movie was released in the UK as The Scarlet Buccaneer.
A swashbuckler is a rough, noisy and boastful adventurer.
Swashbuckler may also refer to:
- Swashbuckler (film), the 1976 film
- Swashbuckler (Dungeons & Dragons), the character class in the role-playing game
- Swashbuckler (video game), published in 1982 by Datamost
- Swashbuckler films, a genre of film
- Swashbuckler, a game published in 1980 by Yaquinto Publications
- Swashbuckler, the nephew of Vigilante (Greg Saunders)
- The former name of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Cheerleaders
- The Louisiana Swashbucklers, an indoor football team
Swashbuckle may also refer to:
- Swashbuckle, a pirate-themed American thrash-metal band
- Swashbuckle (TV series), a British children's television show on the Cbeebies channel
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 a wooden-beamed ship's hold littered with skeletons and cobwebs, which the player views from the side.
The Apple II version of the game was translated into Bulgarian under the name "Авантюрист" (Adventurer).
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.