The epee, also written as epee in French, is the largest and heaviest of the three weapons used in the sport of fencing. The modern epee descends from the nineteenth-century epee de combat, a dueling weapon that itself derived from the French smallsword. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Weapon Class
Weapon Class (category)Sword / Polearm / Bladed 1 Classification
Service Status Weapon Class Sources
1. Wikipedia: Epee
Wikidata, P279 subclass of
sword
- Weapon class (sword-polearm-blade) is a pre-industrial/melee weapon type by its own nature per the entity's own sourced description text; not carried in current active military service.
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