Skip to main content

Subjects (SH) Terminology Resource (Getty Research Institute)

Search from vocabulary

Concept information

Weapons > Edged weapons > Sabers

Preferred term

Sabers  

Definition

  • Swords with a long, broad, single-edged blade, usually at least slightly curved, and a hilt with a cup-shaped pommel and a quillon arching down to the pommel to form a knuckle guard, designed mainly for delivering cutting blows. [AAT]

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Sabres

Notation

  • 116529

In other languages

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-BZBTN65M-C

Download this concept: