swordmaster

Noun

1. An expert or consummate swordfighter.
   • With ten sword instructors at West Point under the swordmaster the lessons to cadets would all be individual and special. - 1882, United States War Department, Annual Reports of the Secretary of War, Volume 1, page 160:
   • Mr. Roux’s pupils form the majority of the swordmasters at the twenty German Universities and the Polytechnic schools, and Mr. Roux is regarded as the first who taught a manner of broadsword practice which may be best...
   • So far as it appeared to the eye, they were singularly well matched. Of the same height, with the same reach of arm; broad of chest and narrowing at the hips; with well turned limbs and supple in wrist and ankle, an...