veny
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Alteration of French venue. Doublet of venue.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
veny (plural venies)
- (fencing) A strike or blow.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 47, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
- It is not, as at Fence, where the number of venies [tr. touches] given, gets the victorie: So long as the enemie is on foot, a man is newly to begin.
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Verb[edit]
veny
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