Meaning of belle sabreuse | Babel Free

Definitions

A gallant swordswoman; a dashing female adventurer.

Examples

“The newspaper accounts show that several attempts were made, and not without success in two or three instances, to deprive la belle sabreuse of the points she had made, and to place her hors de combat.”

“Quite sexy, those scars, though, in a belle sabreuse sort of way.”

“Exhausted, I canter through postpandrial naps atop a Senegalese camel, and in full beau geste. "En avant, ma belle sabreuse!" shouts Tintin into the teeth of the wind.”

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