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savate

[ suh-vat ]

noun

  1. a sport resembling boxing but permitting blows to be delivered with the feet as well as the hands.


savate

/ səˈvæt /

noun

  1. a form of boxing in which blows may be delivered with the feet as well as the hands
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of savate1

1860–65; < French: literally, old shoe. See sabot
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Word History and Origins

Origin of savate1

C19: from French, literally: old worn-out shoe; related to sabot
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Example Sentences

La savate—a military practice of beating with an old shoe soldiers unskilful at drill.

Also he had practiced the Savate and was familiar with jiu jitsu—but he didn't need either of them.

It is a development of the old sport of savate, in which the feet, and not the hands, were used in attack.

He fought on with hands and feet, even drawing, against these odds, on the savate he had learned in Paris.

Indeed, if the object of boxing be to use all means of offence and defence, the savate is indispensable.

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