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Quarte
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Quarte
quarte
quarte
English
Alternative forms
Noun
quarte (plural quartes)
- (fencing) The fourth defensive position, with the sword hand held at chest height, and the tip of the sword at neck height, the palm of the hand facing upwards.
Latin
Numeral
quarte
- vocative masculine singular of quartus
References
- quarte in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “quarte”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
Old French
Adjective
quarte m (oblique and nominative feminine singular quarte)
- fourth (ordinal adjective)