"couteau" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: couteaus [plural], couteaux [plural]
Etymology: From French couteau. Doublet of cuttle. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|couteau}} French couteau, {{doublet|en|cuttle}} Doublet of cuttle Head templates: {{en-noun|s|couteaux}} couteau (plural couteaus or couteaux)
  1. (obsolete) A knife; a dagger. Tags: obsolete Synonyms: cutto, cuttoe
    Sense id: en-couteau-en-noun-9xuMkxt3 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 78 2 20 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 72 1 27

Inflected forms

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          "text": "\"Brave!—brave enough, I warrant you,\" answered Norman; \"I was in the wood at Tyninghame, when there was a sort of gallants hunting with my lord; on my saul, there was a buck turned to bay made us all stand back; a stout old Trojan of the first-head, ten-tyned branches, and a brow as broad as e'er a bullock's. Egad, he dashed at the old lord, and there would have been inlake among the peerage, if the Master had not whipt roundly in, and hamstrung him with his cutlace. He was but sixteen then, bless his heart!\"\n\"And is he as ready with the gun as with the couteau?\" said Sir William.\n\"He'll strike this silver dollar out from between my finger and thumb at fourscore yards, and I'll hold it out for a gold merk; what more would ye have of eye, hand, lead, and gunpowder?\"",
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