duel
/ˈdul/ noun B2- Arranged, regular combat between two private persons, often over a matter of honor.
- Historically, the wager of battle (judicial combat).
- Any battle or struggle between two contending persons, forces, groups, or ideas. · a sniper duel
Plural duels
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Marseilles is filled with half-pay officers, who are daily, under one frivolous pretext or other, getting up quarrels with the royalists; from hence arise continual and fatal duels among the higher classes of persons, and assassinations in the lower.”
’Tis like a duel.
It has been a duel between you and me, Mr.
Then began his travels, his duels, his caprices; then the insurrection in Greece broke out, and he had served in the Grecian ranks.
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