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gladiatorial combat

noun as in Roman holiday

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They strike the English eye as being attired for football, or a gladiatorial combat, rather than a summer game.

This gladiatorial combat might have been going on till now, the Sunday-school superintendent concluded, if Winch hadn't subsided.

Another tomb close by bears a notice of a gladiatorial combat to take place at Nuceria.

This was to be better than any gunplay, a gladiatorial combat to delight the hearts of frontiersmen.

Even a football game is a modern rendition of a gladiatorial combat.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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