bare-pointed

Updated: May 31, 2025

The duel of a more serious kind that with pistols or the French rapier, or with the bare-pointed sabre and unprotected bodies is punishable by law, and is growing rarer each year. Take a sabre duel "heavy sabre duel" is the German name for it arising out of a quarrel in a cafe or beer-house, and in which one of the opponents may be a foreigner affiliated to some Corps or Burschenschaft.

Stanley Shaw - William of Germany