scabbard
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Di Benedetto furnishes the colonial tedium with the scabbarded swords of Creole gentlemen and the patient embroidery of aristocratic young ladies.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 15, 2017
They are keen-edged tales, scabbarded in language of bygone elegance, glinting fine irony.
From Time Magazine Archive
He tosses a scabbarded Nightfell onto the ground in front of me, and then settles himself on a couch with legs in the shape of bird feet.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
Under them lay the color guard; the scabbarded swords252 of the colonel and his staff were stuck upright in the ground, and the blanket-swathed figures of the officers in poncho and havelock reposed close by.
From Special Messenger by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
It was richly hilted and scabbarded, as became such a weapon, and I always wore it in action.
From Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 by Brady, Cyrus Townsend
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