spadassinicide

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Definition von spadassinicide im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

The act of coaxing someone, usually through insult, into initiating a swordsman's duel, and subsequently killing that person with superior skill so as to commit legal murder

One who performs such an act

Challenges are flying right and left between these bully-swordsmen, these spadassinicides, and poor devils of the robe who have never learnt to fence with anything but a quill.

Etymologie

() From English spadassin, from Italian spadaccino (“swordsman”)