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Samurai   /sˈæmʊrˌaɪ/  /sˈæmərˌaɪ/   Listen
Samurai

noun
1.
A Japanese warrior who was a member of the feudal military aristocracy.
2.
Feudal Japanese military aristocracy.





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"Samurai" Quotes from Famous Books



... steel Was formed of claymores in a wheel. Jewelled swords worn at kings' levees Were suspended next midshipmen's dirks, and these Elbowed stilettos come from Spain, Chased with some splendid Hidalgo's name. There were Samurai swords from old Japan, And scimitars from Hindoostan, While the blade of a Turkish yataghan Made a waving streak of vitreous white Upon the wall, in the firelight. Foils with buttons broken or lost Lay heaped on a chair, among them tossed The boarding-pike of a privateer. Against the chimney ...
— Sword Blades and Poppy Seed • Amy Lowell
... and fifty years ago, the daughter of a rich merchant of the city of the Shoguns, while attending some temple- festival, perceived in the crowd a young samurai of remarkable beauty, and immediately fell in love with him. Unhappily for her, he disappeared in the press before she could learn through her attendants who he was or whence he had come. But his image remained vivid in her memory,—even to the least detail of his costume. ...
— In Ghostly Japan • Lafcadio Hearn


Words linked to "Samurai" :   Nipponese, warrior, nobility, Japanese, aristocracy


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