swashbuckler

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Pork Filled Productions, which focuses on providing a platform for Asian American artists, seemingly never met a genre it wasn’t willing to explore, from seafaring swashbuckler to steampunk Western.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 11, 2023

Peter Osnos, a Post foreign correspondent who later founded the publishing house PublicAffairs, said Mr. Horne was “not a newsroom swashbuckler, but someone who exuded quiet reserve, a thoughtful person on complicated stories.”

From Washington Post • Sep. 10, 2022

And what became of onetime swashbuckler Tom Barrack?

From Salon • Aug. 17, 2022

The Mark of Zorro’ Douglas Fairbanks plays the masked avenger in this thrilling silent-era swashbuckler from 1920, presented in 35mm with an original score performed live by the Jack Curtis Dubowksy Orchestra.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 14, 2022

Penelope looked around but saw only moss, trees, and some lovely specimens of the common but ruggedly attractive swashbuckler fern, with its long, swordlike fronds and thick stems that were sturdy as peg legs.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood