Definition of Fechter

1. fighter [n -S] - See also: fighter

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fechter

feceated
feceates
feceating
fecht
fechter (current term)
fechters
fechting
fechts
fecial
fecials
fecit
fecked
fecking
feckless
fecklessly
fecklessness
fecklessnesses

Literary usage of Fechter

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Hamlet by William Shakespeare (1905)
"fechter also conceives it thus. I cannot find any warrant in Shakespeare for such a reading ; and it is adopted solely to evade a difficulty which no longer ..."

2. The Dickens Circle: A Narrative of the Novelist's Friendships by James William Thomas Ley (1919)
"I have heard friends of the novelist speak of it with wonderment, and speak slightingly of fechter; and Forster seems to justify me when he says: "But ..."

3. Reminiscences of a Dramatic Critic: With an Essay on the Art of Henry Irving by Henry Austin Clapp (1902)
"He was born in London, in 1824, and was the son of an Englishwoman and Jean Maria fechter, a sculptor, who was of German descent, but a native of France. ..."

4. The Writings of Charles Dickens by Charles Dickens, Gilbert Ashville Pierce (1894)
"Mr DEAR fechter, — Your letter reached me here yesterday. I have sent you a telegram (addressed to the theatre) this morning, and I write this by the ..."

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