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1687 W. Hope (title) The Scots fencing-master, or compleat small-sword-man.

1747 J. Godfrey Treat. Useful Sci. Def. 22 The Medium is the Small-Sword Posture, and that alone may properly be called a guard.

1803 Ann. Reg., Chron. 525/2 If he would take a foil and indulge him with a lesson in the small-sword exercise.

1814 Manœuvring iv. iii, in J. Galt New Brit. Theatre II. 117 All this sparring and small-sword play of wit.

1904 Cornhill Mag. May 699 Before this invention [sc. the fencing mask], small-sword play in the master's room was perforce comparatively slow, correct, sure, and, above all, deliberate.

2003 R. J. Lane Swashbuckling (2005) i. iv. 61 While this [sc. the en garde] stance has its roots primarily in smallsword technique, it was not the way most people started swordfights during most of recorded history.