1889 W. H. Pollock et al. (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) iv. 83 The riposting fencer must..deliver his thrust with the hand inclined towards pronation.
1927 W. R. Benét in 11 June 892/1 How to suck the pure, distillate, stored Essence of essence from the hidden star And make it pierce like a riposting sword.
2002 R. Cohen i. iv. 74 A ‘delayed riposte’ (where a fencer, having parried an attack, deliberately refrains from riposting at once, so as to upset his adversary's timing) was known as ‘temps perdu’.