单词 | cinquedea |
释义 | cinquedea|tʃɪŋkwɪˈdeɪa| [(Venetian) It., f. cinque five + dea = dita fingers, pl. of dito:— L. digitu-s digit.] A broad-bladed dagger or short sword of which the blade has the breadth of five fingers.
1897Daily News 1 Feb. 6/2 A cinquedea, the hilt composed of plaques of faceted ivory, Italian 15th century, in a finely decorated scabbard. 1911Archæol. Jrnl. LXVIII. 159 The majority of these cinquedeas are about four and a half inches wide at the base of the blade. 1920Laking European Armour III. 61 The gorgeous enrichments of the various cinquedea-like daggers. Ibid. 70 Cinquedea sword daggers of late XVth and early XVIth century date. 1962Internat. Art Treas. Exhib. (V. & A. Mus.) 53/2 A fifteenth-century Venetian sword, the bronze hilt of cinquedea form bound with plaques of mammoth ivory. |

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