broadswordsman
/ˈbɹɔːdsɔɹdzmən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person who is skillful in wielding a broadsword.
Example Sentences
- "Thomas Stephens was the first Lieutenant Colonel of the Second Cavalry and succeeded Washburn as Colonel. He had been a soldier in the British army and was an expert broadswordsman."
- "By noon the morning's work is got over, including the consumption of a cup of soup, the ablution without which no true believer is happy, and the obligations of Frankish toilette. Then comes a stroll to the fencing-school, kept by an excellent broadswordsman, an old German trooper."
- "His point of view is the exceedingly advantageous one obtained by an American birth, a French education and a long continued residence in England, and his manner may be described as that of a light fencer whose deftness and despatch are in graceful contrast to the exertions of the unwieldy broadswordsmen of literature."
Etymology
From broadsword + -s- + -man.