[f. SWASH sb.1]

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  † 1.  = SWASHING ppl. a. 2. Obs.

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1599.  Minsheu, Sp. Dict., Dial. (1623), 30. This wound hurts me not much, for it is giuen with the hand vpward, but beware of the swash blow [Spanish el rebés], for I will draw it with the hand downwards.

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  2.  † a. ? Swashbuckling, swaggering: = SWASHING ppl. a. 1. Obs. b. ‘Swell,’ ‘swagger,’ showy. dial.

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c. 1600.  Day, Begg. Bednall Gr., II. ii. (1881), 39. Old Simsons son … that wears his great gall gaskins o’ the Swash-fashion, with 8 or 10 gold laces of a side.

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1635.  J. Gower, Pyrgomachia, A 3 b. Some others … Are of the rash-swash-fellowes band.

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1713.  S. Sewall, Diary, 5 Nov. I first see Col. Tho. Noyes in a swash Flaxen Wigg.

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1866.  Gregor, Banffsh. Gloss., Swash, (1) gaudy; showy…. (2) Of ostentatious manners.

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1877.  Holderness Gloss., Swash, showy; gaudy.

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