Foinery
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Thrusting with the foil; fencing with the point of the sword, as distinguished from broadsword play. obsolete, uncountable
"By chaunce, in Livias modest company; / When, after the god-saving ceremony, / For want of talke-stuffe, fals to foinery; / Out goes his rapier, and to Livia / He shewes the ward by puncta reversa"
Example
More examples"By chaunce, in Livias modest company; / When, after the god-saving ceremony, / For want of talke-stuffe, fals to foinery; / Out goes his rapier, and to Livia / He shewes the ward by puncta reversa"
Etymology
From foin + -ery.
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