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Weapons > Staff weapons > Partisans, weapons

Preferred term

Partisans, weapons  

Definition

  • Staff weapons having a broad, tapering triangular blade with two upturned lugs or wings at the base, used as thrusting and cutting weapons; also extremely popular as ceremonial weapons, 16th-19th cs., and occasionally as such today [AAT]

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • PARTIZANS

Notation

  • 113785

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URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-N1JQS06L-G

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