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< MacDowell, Edward Alexander

mace >

mace ¹

s) KEY

NOUN:

A ceremonial staff borne or displayed as the symbol of authority of a legislative body.
A macebearer.
A heavy medieval war club with a spiked or flanged metal head, used to crush armor.

ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English, from Old French masse, from Vulgar Latin *mattea

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