Meaning of schiavone | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname from Italian.
2. A backed, hilted broadsword of the 17th century.
   historical

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Examples

“Once back aboard the raft and still in the grip of those tentacles, it was O'Rourke's assignment to stand quietly while his partner took a schiavone, a two-edged basket-hilted sword he had picked up in Italy, and methodically whacked off the arms of the octopus.”

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