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Definition of Swashbucklers
1. swashbuckler [n] - See also: swashbuckler
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swashbucklers
Literary usage of Swashbucklers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Gotcha by Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn (1992)
"We will simply take up immediately and move right into the reprinting: THE
CLANDESTINE THEORY Swashbucklers AND SECRET WARS During the 1950's most of the ..."
2. The Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain Parliament (1908)
"Gentleman, at any rate, attributed the difficulties which had arisen to the
swashbucklers. MR. RUNCIMAN : What I said was that during the last ten years of ..."
3. A Chinese Biographical Dictionary by Herbert Allen Giles (1898)
"Sheng called for twenty of the bravest and shrewdest of his swashbucklers, but
only nineteen were forthcoming. Mao Sui offered himself as the twentieth, ..."
4. A Chinese Biographical Dictionary by Herbert Allen Giles (1898)
"... and shrewdest of his swashbucklers, but only nineteen were forthcoming. ...
swashbucklers jeered; however at the onference with the Prince of Ch'u, ..."
5. The Horseless Age (1899)
"They cover themselves with diamonds to excite the cupidity of the vulgar and the
artless, swagger about like swashbucklers, and talk glibly of millions made ..."
6. An Englishman in Paris (Notes and Recollections) by Albert Dresden Vandam (1893)
"Marshal Vaillant—The beginning of our acquaintance—His stories of the swashbucklers
of the First Empire, and the beaux of the Restauration—Rabelaisian, ..."
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