Lexicographical Neighbors of Spados
Literary usage of Spados
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tracts Illustrative of the Traditionary & Historical Antiquities of Scotland by Robert Buchanan (1836)
"spados, from ESPADE or ESPADON, in the same language, a sword, and by a metonymy,
for any weapon. Neither needs it be strange that these words are borrowed ..."
2. The Story of Africa and Its Explorers by Robert Brown (1892)
"They were dressed in long black cloaks, with spados, or long swords, " thrust up
behind." They had also " poniards long enough for swords, and long chaplets ..."
3. The Tale of a Field Hospital by Frederick Treves (1900)
"They came past my tent about breakfast time, and every morning I wondered whether
the men with the spados would como, since, when they came, ..."
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