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swashbuckler. Today’s swashbucklers are action-packed, ro- mantic films or novels featuring much sword-play. The word, in its oldest sense, means a swaggering show-off and was used this way in Elizabethan times. A buckler was a small shield used to catch the sword blows of an opponent and to swash meant to dash against. But swashbucklers weren’t always good swordsmen and often ran when the going got tough. See pirates; walk the plank. |