creese

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The creese is more than a sword to the Javanese; it is a sacred symbol, and if it is drawn rashly and without preliminary invocations, Javanese believe that misfortune overtakes the rash drawer.

From Time Magazine Archive

Colonel Ishimoto, without asking permission, drew out the creese and waved it about.

From Time Magazine Archive

He carried with him the creese which Brandon had given him.

From Cord and Creese by De Mille, James

Then whetting his brass-mounted creese to the keenest edge upon a smooth stone, he muttered a dread oath betwixt his clenched teeth, and strode moodily across the sandy plain.

From The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis

He read a line or two and gasped out that it was a forgery, and rang the bell again, and looked again behind the clock for his creese.

From Peter Ibbetson by Du Maurier, George