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Meaning of foinery | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

Thrusting with the foil; fencing with the point of the sword, as distinguished from broadsword play.

obsolete, uncountable

Examples

“By chaunce, in Livias modest company; / When, after the god-saving ceremony, / For want of talke-stuffe, fals to foinery; / Out goes his rapier, and to Livia / He shewes the ward by puncta reversa”

CEFR level

B1

Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

See also

Foism foison Foist Foisted foister foistiness