Haudegen — meaning in English
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English meaning
- swashbuckler noun A swordsman or fencer who engages in showy or extravagant swordplay.
- warhorse noun Any horse used in horse-cavalry, but especially one bearing an armoured knight.
Senses
Haudegen is used for these senses in English:
- swashbuckler A swordsman or fencer who engages in showy or extravagant swordplay.
- warhorse (figurative, informal) An experienced person who has been through many battles, situations or contests; someone who has given long service.
swashbuckler — full definition
- noun A swordsman or fencer who engages in showy or extravagant swordplay.
- noun A daring adventurer.
- noun A kind of period adventure story with flashy action and a lighthearted tone.
warhorse — full definition
- noun Any horse used in horse-cavalry, but especially one bearing an armoured knight.
- noun An experienced person who has been through many battles, situations or contests; someone who has given long service.
- noun A regularly revived theatrical or musical work, as with Hamlet or a Beethoven symphony, or as excerpts thereto. May imply that the work in question has become hackneyed.