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Engage in daring and romantic adventures with ostentatious bravado or flamboyance.
‘a crew of swashbuckling buccaneers’
‘Nicholas's swashbuckling brand of Christian charity led him to another famous adventure when he heard that three innocent men were about to be beheaded.’
‘The Adventures of Robin Hood is one of the truly great swashbuckling adventure films.’
‘There's something kind of romantic about it all, a swashbuckling director.’
‘Later, in Drogheda, it's Charlie who leads the charge on the canvas, with a walkabout that can only be described as swashbuckling.’
‘They were the bravest, most swashbuckling team of the tournament.’
‘Much of the music has a seafaring tone to it, with a touch of the heroic, swashbuckling fare you would find from a pirate movie.’
‘Aimed at a teenage audience, it will be swashbuckling without the floppy hats and feathers say the makers.’
‘The Legend of Zorro is just like Indiana Jones, old Batman movies or any other movie featuring cheesy fighting or swashbuckling.’
‘All the villains are villainous, the damsels worthy of long low wolf whistles, the heroes swashbuckling.’
‘I realize in reading this that this sounds as if I swashbuckle around winning arguments left and right.’
‘Away from the theatre Tim is the senior coach at Carlow Fencing Club and he is looking forward to other theatrical swashbuckling engagements.’
‘Well, he was very tall and strong and swashbuckling with a big black moustache curled up in a spiral at each end.’
‘The yo-ho-ho swashbuckling in the film drew comparisons with Errol Flynn, but Bloom's territory is not raffish seduction.’
‘And it is with that swashbuckle that they will travel the long way to Tipperary, cockleshell heroes to a man, deep in culchie country, to take on the rather flawed frigate manned by the current Kingdom crew.’
‘For younger visitors, swashbuckling pirates will be hand to entertain, along with magicians, face paintings, musicians and much more.’
‘Brave at the back, brilliant in midfield, swashbuckling up front, Laois may not be the finished article yet.’
‘The look may suggest dilettante, cavalier and swashbuckling and that is partly his style with bat in hand, but he is cussed and determined.’
‘Police are once more issuing tickets and those using the nation's roads for daredevil or swashbuckling adventures can get in on the action.’
‘If Jayasuriya's innings was exciting though, Muttiah Muralitharan's stay was swashbuckling in comparison.’
‘Eventually he joins the buccaneer William Dampier and they swashbuckle around the Pacific.’