Obs. rare–1. A broadsword; more fully, an ‘Andrea Ferrara.’ Cf. ANDREW 1.

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1762.  Churchill, Poems, The Prophecy of Famine, 395.

                    There saw I strangers clad
In all the honours of our ravish’d plaid;
Saw the Ferrara, too, our nation’s pride,
Unwilling grace the awkward victor’s side.

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1785.  Grose, Dict. Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Ferrara, An Andrea Ferrara has become the common name for the glaymore, or highland broad-sword.

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