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seconde

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

noun

Fencing.
secondes plural
  1. the second of the eight defensive positions.


seconde British  
/ səɡɔ̃d, sɪˈkɒnd /

noun

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of seconde

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

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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

The seconde parte shalbe of nownes, pronownes, adverbes, participles, with verbes, prepositions, and conjunctions.

From An Introductorie for to Lerne to Read, To Pronounce, and to Speke French Trewly by Du Wés, Giles

These fyve uowels be consonantes when they receyve nat their full sounde, as in this worde jamais the fyrst a is a uowell, and the seconde is a consonant.

From An Introductorie for to Lerne to Read, To Pronounce, and to Speke French Trewly by Du Wés, Giles

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 Cabell, James Branch

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 De Morgan, William Frend

"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

He married en secondes noces, the Archduchess Theresa of Austria.

From The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 1, 1837-1843 by Esher, Reginald Baliol Brett, Viscount

En secondes noces, she married the fourth Duke of Cleveland.

From The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 1, 1837-1843 by Esher, Reginald Baliol Brett, Viscount

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