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/ˌɛkskˈæləbər/ Listen

Excalibur

noun

(Written also Excalibar, Excalibor, Escalibar, and Caliburn)

The legendary sword of King Arthur.

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"Excalibur" Quotes from Famous Books

... great book is like the sword Excalibur. It remains struck fast in this door, awaiting the coming of a writer with genius enough to draw it forth. I am not even a writer, I am not so much as qualified to attempt the task. The extraction ...

— Crome Yellow • Aldous Huxley

... into this barge and row yourself unto the hand and take from it the sword. And know ye that the name of that sword is Excalibur, and while you keep the scabbard by your side, ye shall lose no blood, be ye never so ...

— King Arthur's Knights - The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls • Henry Gilbert

... slender Mandarin mustaches, and who expressed profound astonishment and equally profound satisfaction upon noting that I too had been enjoying the pleasures of cheese. Not once, but several times, this Excalibur appearance startled B. and me: in fact the extreme modesty and incomparable shyness of The Zulu found only in this procedure a satisfactory method of bestowing presents upon his two friends ... ...

— The Enormous Room • Edward Estlin Cummings

Words linked to "Excalibur" : blade, sword, brand, steel