main-gauche

See also: main gauche

English

Etymology

French, left hand.

Noun

main-gauche

  1. (historical) The dagger held in the left hand, while the rapier is held in the right; used to parry thrusts of the adversary's rapier.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for main-gauche in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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