sabred

sabred

English

Verb

sabred

1. simple past tense and past participle of sabre

Adjective

sabred (not comparable)

1. Equipped with a sabre or sabres.
   • 1769, Henry Brooke, The Fool of Quality, Dublin, for the author, Volume 4, p. 211,

     […] there are Persons whose Loveliness is more formidable to me, than an Arrangement of sabred Hussars with their fierce looking Mustaches.

   • 1894, Helen H. Gardener, An Unofficial Patriot, Boston: Arena Publishing Company, Chapter 13, p. 183,

     To both, war was a mere name yet, a painted glory, a sabred, gold-laced parade before admiring, cheering crowds.

   • 1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan, “Titus is Christened,” in The Gormenghast Novels, Woodstock: The Overlook Press, 1995, p. 95,

     […] the doctor brandishing his teeth at the word “Titus” as though it were the signal for some romantic advance of sabred cavalry.

Anagrams

• ardebs, beards, breads, debars, serdab