creese
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The creese is more than a sword to the Javanese; it is a sacred symbol, and if it is drawn rashly and without preliminary invocations, Javanese believe that misfortune overtakes the rash drawer.
From Time Magazine Archive
Colonel Ishimoto, without asking permission, drew out the creese and waved it about.
From Time Magazine Archive
I shall throw my creese into the air.
From The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old by Florence Partello Stuart
A magician with a sword—with a great, evil, written-upon creese like that hanging at Black Hill—was here before the palace.
From Foes by Mary Johnston
What a neat hand he was, too, with that spiral-bladed Malay creese of his!
From Captain Brand of the "Centipede" A Pirate of Eminence in the West Indies: His Love and Exploits, Together with Some Account of the Singular Manner by Which He Departed This Life by H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise
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