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curtana
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curtana [kɜːˈtɑːnə]
n
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the unpointed sword carried before an English sovereign at a coronation as an emblem of mercy
[from Anglo-Latin, from Old French cortain, the name of Roland's sword, which was broken at the point, ultimately from Latin curtus short]
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