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2. An opposition parry is a parry taken against an offensive action executed by prise-de-fer or in opposition, which maintains contact with the blade and pushes against the opponent's action, deflecting it into the laterally opposite line from that in which it was directed. Opposition parries are correctly executed by using leverage rather than ...
attaque au fer an attack on the opponent's blade in fencing, e.g. beat, expulsion, pressure. au contraire on the contrary. au courant up-to-date; abreast of current affairs. au fait being familiar with or know about something. au gratin "with gratings", anything that is grated onto a food dish. In English, specifically 'with cheese'. au jus
Prise de fer is a movement used in fencing in which a fencer takes the opponent's blade into a line and holds it there in preparation to attack. Translated from French, the phrase prise de fer means "taking-the-blade" or "taking-the-steel". Alternate spellings include the plural Prises de Fer or "Les Prises de Fer", and (incorrectly) Praise de ...
Today's Wordle Answer for #1332 on Monday, February 10, 2025. Today's Wordle answer on Monday, February 10, 2025, is GOODY. How'd you do? Up Next:
Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE. "Say" for EG, used to mean "for example". More obscure clue words of this variety include: "Model" for T, referring to the Model T.
It's been a tough start to 2025 for traders betting against stocks. Short sellers, who bet on stock prices to fall, have lost $73 billion between US and Canadian markets to start 2025, according ...
A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter, while the black squares are used to ...
The governor said she isn’t opposed to tariffs outright, but they shouldn’t be used to punish the country’s closest trading partners. “Doing so hurts all of us, damaging supply chains ...