Braquemard
The braquemard (also spelled shaft ) is a model of sword Moyen-âge short and broad has two edges.
The word braquemard appears with the Moyen-âge and would come from the Dutch word Breecmes indicating a knife which would be intended to chop and to weed. This last was to be thus robust with a short blade, broad and strong.
It takes the significance of sword in the French language thanks to Montaigne, in the Newspaper of the voyage in Italy . This last employs the word shaft to translate the sword of the German fencers, the messer or the dussack .
Extracts: After disner smoke us to see escrimer in dirty publicque where it avoit large' presses there, & pays one with antrée, COM' aus bâteleurs, & in addition to that the seats of the benches. They tirarent there with the pouignard, with espée with deus hands, the stick with deus ends, & the shaft; us vimes after jeus of taken with the arbaleste & the arc, in place even more splendid than in Schafouse.
By extension, the word was used to indicate the slang Pénis in .
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