blade
18
9.9
- noun
- /bleɪd/
- Archaic
:
dandi (arcaico, literario)
- "soon will go to the altar with a gay blade...
Examples
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"Temple hesitated, then asked, "Should I expect The Blade to be home for supper this evening?"
Fiction book (1994) -
If anything, they hated The Blade and all the other treaty advocates more than before.
Fiction book (1994) -
There, in front of her, stood The Blade, his face like stone and his eyes like blue steel.
Fiction book (1994) -
A stout company of young blades eager to learn about life.
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I don't know what you see in that inexperienced young blade.
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Then she sees the tears rimming Blade's eyes, the first he's shed in a lifetime.
Fiction book (1998) -
Suddenly, Temple stiffened, sensing The Blade's presence even though she hadn't heard a sound.
Fiction book (1994) -
"After the briefest hesitation, The Blade swung around to confront her.
Fiction book (1994) -
Samuel Worcester, Isaac Proctor, and Nathan Cole. "A comic sight it was, too, Will," The Blade inserted dryly.
Fiction book (1994) -
He is quite the blade, always charming and ready for a good time.
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
14
2.4
A flat, triangular bone on each side of the upper back that helps hold the arm
- Specialized
A flat vertical part at the back of a boat or plane that moves to steer it
How Dashing
Surface Forms
Etymology
Blade as an old word for a dashing young man comes from another old meaning of blæd that suggested 'bloom' or 'flourishing', so one popular way to remember it is to think of a young man 'in bloom' called a 'blade'.