adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a swashbuckling ship captain
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But there is no shifting the swashbuckling McInerney.
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He has everything a swashbuckling hero needs - except good looks.
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The Westons' brief life stories would have done credit to the swashbuckling imagination of a Stevenson, Scott or Dumas.
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Ultra-confident, dashing and with a swashbuckling air he is the archetypal head boy or captain of the rugby team.