Poignard
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A poignard, originally a French word, is a long lightweight dagger, or stabbing weapon, employed in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance as a weapon.[1] It was used by soldiers of the Vijayanagara Empire in South India in the 14th to 17th centuries.[2]
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- ^ Brass-hilted Poignard. Ancient Edge. Retrieved on January 10, 2007.
- ^ from the notes of Nuniz, K.A. Nilakanta Sastry, History of South India, From Prehistoric times to fall of Vijayanagar, 1955, OUP, (Reprinted 2002), p288
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