épée

noun

ˈe-ˌpā

ā-ˈpā

: a fencing or dueling sword having a bowl-shaped guard and a rigid blade of triangular section with no cutting edge that tapers to a sharp point blunted for fencing compare foil entry 4 sense 1, saber

: the art or sport of fencing with the épée

Examples of épée in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Fencing — Men’s team epee at 1:30 p.m. ET and 7:30 p.m. —

Larissa Gao, NBC News, 3 Aug. 2024 Also Sunday, Japan's Koki Kano beat France's Yannick Borel 15-9 for the men's epee gold medal. —

CBS News, 29 July 2024 Vivian Kong won Hong Kong's first medal at the Paris Games, topping the podium in the women's epee individual event. —

Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 31 July 2024 Susan Baek Fencing uses three different weapons: epee (or épée), foil and saber. —

Greg Rosenstein, NBC News, 30 July 2024 Dressage, Grand Prix, Day 1 (delay) | E! FENCING 7:30 a.m. —Team epee semifinals | E! 1:30 p.m. —Women’s team epee bronze/gold finals (delay) | E! —

Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2024 Also Sunday, France’s Yannick Borel was facing Japan’s Koki Kano for the men’s epee gold medal. —

James Ellingworth, Chicago Tribune, 28 July 2024 But approximately 17,000 pieces of athletes’ luggage will be irregular, including everything from epees to kayaks, which is a challenge. —

J. George Gorant, Robb Report, 24 July 2024 There are 163 athletes from Northern California competing, including 82-year-old epee fencer Ernie Simard of Petaluma. —

Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, 6 Jan. 2024

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