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yataghan
Part of speech: NounA curved Turkish dagger. Also, yatagan.
Usage examples "yataghan":- One hand rested on the hilt of a yataghan, which, by the crimson drops that flowed along its curved blade, had evidently done fatal service in the fray; and one foot was placed, seemingly with supernatural weight, on that national emblem which it had been his pride to lower. - "The Red Rover", James Fenimore Cooper.
- The appeal of Byron consists very mainly, though no doubt not wholly, in two things: the lavish use of the foreign and then unfamiliar scenery, vocabulary, and manners of the Levant, and the installation, as principal character, of a personage who was speedily recognised as a sort of fancy portrait, a sketch in cap and yataghan, of Byron himself as he would like to be thought. - "A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895)", George Saintsbury.
- Upon this, the mighty Vlah- Ali leapt to his feet, girded on a long silken sash, fastened in it a sharp gleaming yataghan, quickly belted on his shining sabre, and was soon firmly seated in his saddle. - "Hero Tales and Legends of the Serbians", Woislav M. Petrovitch.