simitar
Britishnoun
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Then turn over, and you will find it simitar, with the same definition, and the remark, "more properly cimetar."
From Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. by William Stevens Balch
Then he gave them a sign to invest his son, Jahangir, with his turban and robes, and to gird him with his favorite simitar.
From The Great Mogul by Louis Tracy
He knew the weapon, a curved simitar inlaid with gold, and reposing in a scabbard of gilt metal and purple velvet.
From A Son of the Immortals by Howard Chandler Christy
All he needed was a big curved simitar to fill the bill.
From The Lion of Petra by Talbot Mundy
A brace of old French dueling pistols and a Turkish simitar were the only articles which might possibly have been dutiable.
From Man on the Box by Harold MacGrath
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