Agincourt

[ædʒinkɔ:t]

Definition

(noun.) a battle in northern France in which English longbowmen under Henry V decisively defeated a much larger French army in 1415.

Typist: Marvin--From WordNet

Examples

Mr Lightwood murmured 'Vigorous Saxon spirit--Mrs Boffin's ancestors--bowmen--Agincourt and Cressy. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
I always had an opinion on what was wrong with everybody else's, from Agincourt down. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.

Checker: Melanie

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