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sixte
[ sikst ]
noun
- the sixth of eight defensive positions.
sixte
/ sɪkst /
noun
- the sixth of eight basic positions from which a parry or attack can be made in fencing
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Word History and Origins
Origin of sixte1
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Example Sentences
Left a widow, she married again, this time the Baron Sixte du Chatelet.
Whereunto are now newly added a sixte hundred of Epigrams by the sayde Iohn Heywood.
“Coronation,” an attack preceded by a circular movement from high sixte to high quarte (and vice versa) made famous by Lafaugre.
The sixte parry is therefore followed, as a continuation of the movement, by the parry of quarte, or a counter parry.
Parry of Sixte (against thrusts at the upper right-hand side).
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