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A rapier (/ ˈ r eɪ p i ər /) is a type of sword originally used in Spain (known as espada ropera-' dress sword ') and Italy (known as spada da lato a striscia). [1] [2] [3] The name designates a sword with a straight, slender and sharply pointed two-edged long blade wielded in one hand. [4]
The Elizabethan long sword (cf. George Silver [32] and Joseph Swetnam) is a single-handed "cut-and-thrust" sword with a 4 ft (1.2 m) blade [23] similar to the long rapier. "Let thy (long) Rapier or (long) Sword be foure foote at the least, and thy dagger two foote."
It was a relatively large dagger, having a longer and heavier blade (often measuring 19 in (480 mm) or slightly more in length) and very long, straight quillons. Its most characteristic feature was a wide knuckleguard that curved from the quillons to the pommel and protected the hand.
The Bronze Age Rapier by Dr Barry Molloy (2005) Reproductions of bronze age swords (1501bc.com) From Rapier to Langsax: Sword Structure in the British Isles in the Bronze and Iron Ages by Niko Silvester (1995) The Greek Age of Bronze: Swords/Daggers (salimbeti.com) Nordic swords, spirals and the Dorian Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
Egerton Castle used the term to refer to swords that were a transition from the rapier to the smallsword. [7] These swords did not necessarily have an undulated blade. Castle makes note of this being the case of certain Swiss rapiers, but flamberge quickly became a disdainful term in France to refer to flamboyant swords. [8]
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“Sword of the court”) is a light one-handed sword designed for thrusting which evolved out of the longer and heavier rapier (espada ropera) of the late Renaissance. The height of the small sword's popularity was during the 18th century, when any civilian or soldier with pretensions to gentlemanly status would have worn a small sword daily.