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SCHIAVONE

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 323 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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SCHIAVONE , the See also:

ITALIAN

Italian name of the See also:

BASKET

basket-hilted See also:

SWORD (0. Eng. sweord; ultimately from an Indo-European root meaning to wound)

sword of the 17th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, resembling what is erroneously called the " See also:

CLAYMORE (from the Gaelic claidheamh mar, " great sword ")

claymore " of See also:

MODERN

modern Highland regiments . The " schiavone " was the sword of the See also:

SLAVONIC, OLD

Slavonic See also:

GUARDS, AND HOUSEHOLD TROOPS

guards (Schiavone.) of the doges of See also:

Venice, whence the name (see SWORD) .

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