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Curtana (iou)



Curtana noun. ME.
[Anglo-Latin curtana fem. (sc. spatha sword) from Anglo-Norman curtain, Old French cortain, name of Roland's sword, so called because it had broken at the point when thrust into a block of steel, from cort CURT.]
The unpointed sword borne before the British monarch at the Coronation, emblematically considered the sword of mercy.