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noun
A type of sword with a basket-shaped guard, popular during the 16th and 17th centuries.
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History
From Italian. So named because the sword was popular among the Schiavoni (“Slavs”), Istrian and Dalmatian Slavs who formed the bodyguard of the Doge of Venice.
