savate
/suh-vat/US // səˈvæt //UK // (səˈvæt) //
储蓄,储蓄所,储蓄银行,储蓄卡
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a sport resembling boxing but permitting blows to be delivered with the feet as well as the hands.
Examples
La savate—a military practice of beating with an old shoe soldiers unskilful at drill.
Also he had practiced the Savate and was familiar with jiu jitsu—but he didn't need either of them.
It is a development of the old sport of savate, in which the feet, and not the hands, were used in attack.
He fought on with hands and feet, even drawing, against these odds, on the savate he had learned in Paris.
Indeed, if the object of boxing be to use all means of offence and defence, the savate is indispensable.
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