duelist


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Synonyms for duelist

a person who fights duels

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Yesterday, the Elgin Duelist Fencing Club was at the Linkwood View sheltered housing complex to demonstrate the skills used in the ancient sport.
(20) We recall the rule of the duel: "Only the duelist who shoots second has the right to shoot in the air.
A brash, strong-willed man of many talents, in addition to being a remarkable duelist, he is a gifted, joyful poet and is also a musician.
Jarvis Cocker and Charlotte Gainsbourg make counting sexy in the Duelist, Francoise Hardy adds her honeyed vocals to the beautiful Au Fond Du Reve Dore and Sixties composer David Whitaker brings an orchestral sweep to the pining of Remember.
Hercule Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac, a nobleman serving in the French Army, is brash, strong-willed and multi-talented In addition to being a remarkable duelist, he is a gifted poet.
Kellow's Kael transcends mere artistic contrarianism and resembles a sort of impassioned duelist.''
JG: Open The Book of Duels and one reads on the inside cover: "In the seconds before gunpowder explodes or a sword is drawn, the duelist is driven by one of our simplest dispositions: kill or be killed.
In Bayard's painting, the duelist presumed to be Gisele d'Estoc has her back to us.
Oscar grows up to become a skilled duelist and marksman at a tender age, and earns an appointment to Commander of the French Royal Guards.
As you show him your inventory of single-action revolvers, he mentions that one-handed is the way to go--the Duelist category in the game.
Gronow, who was equally as fashionable but never as compulsive a duelist, managed to record the life of a Regency dandy largely from his own experience.
Some of the stories have child or teenage protagonists (the adolescent duelist in Ellen Kushner's "Charis," the daughter of a vampire in Jane Yolen's "Mama Gone"); others have themes of alienation or belonging, many of them reflecting magic in the modern world (the folk musicians in Emma Bull's "A Bird That Whistles," the hip young Knight Templar in Debra Doyle and James D.
SS-Sturmbannfuhrer Otto Skorzeny had studied engineering in Vienna and was a well-known aggressive duelist, who was said to have participated in 15 sabre duels and had a very visible scar as a memento.