seconde

American  

[si-kond, suh-gawnd] / sɪˈkɒnd, səˈgɔ̃d /

noun

Fencing.

• secondes
  plural

1. the second of the eight defensive positions.

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seconde British  

/ səɡɔ̃d, sɪˈkɒnd /

noun

1. the second of eight positions from which a parry or attack can be made in fencing

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• secondes
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of seconde

1680–90; < French, feminine of second second ¹

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Example Sentences

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seconde secondes

And Michael de la Nuez, while spinning in a pirouette à la seconde, suddenly sliced his free leg backward and forward.

From New York Times ● Jul. 8, 2022

They did a double à la seconde turn, one leg whipping out to the side in the middle of each swift revolution, followed by a triple pirouette dropping into a split.

From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2017

And all of this is expressed in a pirouette à la seconde, a step which, to a dancer of McRae's accomplishment, can be dashed off almost without thought.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 26, 2010

Ye seconde bringe along with ye if ye please.

From The Stronghold A Story of Historic Northern Neck of Virginia and Its People by Miriam Haynie

The seconde, the descripcion of a personne, when a man is described, as are the noble menne in Plutarch, and the Emperours in Suetonius.

From A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes by Herbert William Hildebrandt

Bishops have a little turn, I observe, for marrying somebody who is somebody—specially en secondes noces, good men.

From The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance by Lucas Malet

Miramon at one stage of the book's being, I find with real surprise, was married en secondes noces to Math.

From Figures of Earth by James Branch Cabell

"Voilà tes secondes noces!" she cried where she stood, and laughed by the side of the gray angry water, watching the tresses of the floating hair sink downward like a heap of sea-tossed weed.

From Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida by Ouida

In 1882, en secondes noces, she married Mr. Thomas Henry Hungerford, of St. Brenda's, Bandon, co.

From Mrs. Hungerford Notable Women Authors of the Day by Helen C. Black

It was falsified in this case by the birth of a son to Phoebe, en secondes noces, many years later.

From When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan

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