scimitar
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- scimitared adjective
Etymology
Origin of scimitar
1540–50; < Italian scimitarra, ultimately < Persian
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Example Sentences
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The mother's diet was most similar to that of the scimitar cat, a mammoth specialist.
From Science Daily
I glanced at the heavy scimitar lying like a guard dog beside his leg.
From Literature
Riot gear meets scimitar in the streets of Verona, where the civil war between the Montagues and the Capulets has technically ended but hostilities persist in a musical no man’s land.
From Los Angeles Times
The embassy is a building decorated with Saudi national symbols of palms and crossed scimitars, where men in traditional ghutras are constantly going in.
From Washington Post
She put the scimitar back on its stand.
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