stoccado
English
Etymology
From Italian stoccata.
Noun
stoccado (plural stoccados or stoccadoes)
- (obsolete) A stab with a pointed weapon.
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, The Essayes, […], printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:, II.12:
- Yet will not such leave to lift-up their joyned hands to heaven, give them but a stoccado [transl. coup d'espée] on their breast […].
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