coutteau

Updated: August 4, 2026

The poor mistress she's as bad as bad can be. And then began a whispered confidence, broken short by Nutter's again emerging, with the leather belt he wore at night on, and a short back-sword, called a coutteau de chasse, therein, and a heavy walking-cane in his hand.

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - The House by the Church-Yard