stoccado

English

Etymology

From Italian stoccata.

Noun

stoccado (plural stoccados or stoccadoes)

(obsolete) A stab with a pointed weapon.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
  , II.12:
  Yet will not such leave to lift-up their joyned hands to heaven, give them but a stoccado [translating coup d'espée] on their breast […].

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