sixte
the sixth of eight defensive positions.
Origin of sixte
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How to use sixte in a sentence
Left a widow, she married again, this time the Baron sixte du Chatelet.
Repertory Of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A -- Z | Anatole Cerfberr and Jules Franois ChristopheWhereunto 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).
British Dictionary definitions for sixte
/ (sɪkst) /
the sixth of eight basic positions from which a parry or attack can be made in fencing
Origin of sixte
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