A fencing or sword-fighting technique involving a cut or thrust executed with a specific arm and blade movement, historically documented in 16th-century fencing manuals.
From Italian stramazzare (to throw down) or Spanish estramaçón, possibly related to stramma (straw) or from Italian stramazzo (mattress, implying a throwing move). The term appears in Renaissance fencing texts.
Estramazone is basically a forgotten fighting move from the Renaissance—it shows up in old fencing manuals but nobody practices it anymore, making it a linguistic fossil from when sword-fighting was still an essential life skill.
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