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English
Etymology
From Italian stramazzone.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /stɹɑ.ma.zuːn/
Noun
stramazoun (plural stramazouns)
- (obsolete) A direct descending blow with the edge of a sword.
- Synonym: estramacon
1599 (first performance), B. I. [i.e., Ben Jonson], The Comicall Satyre of Euery Man out of His Humor. , London: for William Holme, , published 1600, →OCLC, Act IV, scene iii, signature N, recto:But I (being loth to take the deadly advauntage that lay before mee of his left ſide) made a kind of stramazoun, ran him vp to the hilts, through the Doublet, through the Shirt, and yet miſt the skin.
1855, Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho!: Or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, , volume I, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, page 96:Thy fincture, carricade, and sly passata,
Thy stramazon, and resolute stoccata.
1947, Francisco de Quevedo, “The Visions: The Lovers' Madhouse”, in Roger L'Estrange et al., transl., Quevedo: the choice humorous and satirical works, page 250:There were others that made it their glory to pass for Hectors, sons of Priam, brothers of the blade; and talked of nothing but attacks, combats, reverses, stramazons, stoccados; […]