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Noun

flamberge (plural flamberges)

  • (weaponry) A European sword, typically a greatsword, which had a wavy blade, possibly to increase the cutting surface or for aid in parrying.
    • ✤ Synonym: flame-bladed sword
    • ✤ The wavy, cutting surface appears in the ‘ flamberge,’ to which flame gave a name: it is nowhere better developed than in the beautiful Malay kris (crease). The object seems to be that of increasing the cutting surface.1

Etymology

From French.

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Footnotes

  1. 1884, Richard F[rancis] Burton, “The Sword: What is It?”, in The Book of the Sword, London: Chatto and Windus, […], →OCLC, page 137: ↩