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A pair of tattoos that incorporate simple black shapes and dots. ... #35 Swords and Snakes. These bold thumb tattoos use black and gray for their American traditional design.
Edo period Antique Japanese wakizashi sword blade showing the horimono, of a chrysanthemum Horimono ( 彫り物 , 彫物 , literally carving, engraving), also known as chōkoku ( 彫刻 , "sculpture"), are the engraved images in the blade of a nihonto ( 日本刀 ) Japanese sword , which may include katana or tantō blades. [ 1 ]
Lucky Diamond Rich pictured at Montreal, Canada's PuSh International Performing Arts Festival in 2008.. Gregory Paul McLaren (born 1971), [1] who goes by the name of Lucky Diamond Rich, is a New Zealand-British performance artist, street performer and international performing arts festival performer, whose acts include sword swallowing and juggling on a unicycle.
In heraldry, the cross is also called the Santiago cross or the cruz espada (English: sword cross). [1] It is a charge, or symbol, in the form of a cross.The design combines a cross fitchy or fitchée, one whose lower limb comes to a point, with either a cross fleury, [2] the arms of which end in fleurs-de-lis, or a cross moline where the ends of the arms are forked and rounded.
The wakizashi was one of several short swords available for use by samurai including the yoroi tōshi, and the chisa-katana. The term wakizashi did not originally specify swords of any official blade length [10] and was an abbreviation of wakizashi no katana ("sword thrust at one's side"); the term was applied to companion swords of all sizes. [11]
The term claymore is an anglicisation of the Gaelic claidheamh-mòr "big/great sword", attested in 1772 (as Cly-more) with the gloss "great two-handed sword". [3] The sense "basket-hilted sword" is contemporaneous, attested in 1773 as "the broad-sword now used ... called the Claymore, (i.e., the great sword)", [4] although OED observes that this usage is "inexact, but very common".
A sword is an edged, ... but these were simple swords made exclusively for mass production, ... parades, reviews, courts-martial, tattoos, and changes of command ...
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