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Definition: main-gauche

Part of Speech Definition
Noun 1. The dagger held in the left hand, while the rapier is held in the right; -- used to parry thrusts of the adversary's rapier.[Websters].

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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Date "Main-gauche" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references)


Adjacent words:

Maine-et-Loire     Mainframer     Mainiero
MAINEiacs     Mainframers     Mainila
Mainella     Mainframes     Maining
Mainer     Mainframing     Mainingly
Mainers     Mainframingly     Mainit
Maines     Main-gauche     Mainland
Mainflingen     Maingre     Mainland China
Mainframe     Main-hamper     Mainland-D'Entrecasteaux
Mainframe Computer     Maini     Mainlanders
Mainframed     Mainichi     Mainlands
Mainframedly     Mainie     Mainline


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