schiavone

Italian schiavone, referring to the Slavs of the Doge's bodyguard.

schiavone (plural schiavones)

1. (historical) A backed, hilted broadsword of the 17th century.
   • 1973, Harry Allen Smith, Low Man Rides Again, page 41:

     Once back aboard the raft and still in the grip of those tentacles, it was O'Rourke's assignment to stand quietly while his partner took a schiavone, a two-edged basket-hilted sword he had picked up in Italy, and methodically whacked off the arms of the octopus.

• anchovies

See schiavo.

schiavone (plural schiavoni)

1. Slavonian

schiavone m (plural schiavoni, feminine schiavona)

1. Slavonian

• Schiavone