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Other knights and common soldiers adopted the buckler (origin of the term swashbuckler).
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A dashing young swashbuckler confronts him, and rescues the woman.
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It is a sub-genre of the adventure film, along with swashbuckler films, war films, and safari films.
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Swashbuckler was a putdown, used to indicate a poor swordsman who covered his lack of skill with noise, bragging, and clamour.
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However, these phenomena have only served to advance the romantic image of piracy and its treasure-burying swashbucklers in popular culture.
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Nowhere else is swordplay more apparent than in the swashbuckler film.
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On creaky pirate ships you'll be faced with skeletal swashbucklers that swing over gaps in the planks.
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Key genres such as the swashbuckler, horror, and modern romantic comedy flourished during the decade.
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This was the birth of a new kind of film hero: the swashbuckler.
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Many of them exhibit the behaviors and characteristics which are stereotypical to a swashbuckler.
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