All 3 Uses
parry
in
Cyrano de Bergerac
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- I parry the point of your steel; —The point you hoped to make me feel; I open the line, now clutch Your spit, Sir Scullion—slow your zeal!†
Act 1parry = to avoid
- CYRANO: I parry it—find myself... CHRISTIAN: Nose to nose... CYRANO (bounding on to him): Heaven and earth!†
Act 2 *
- and I parry... CHRISTIAN: Pif!†
Act 2
Definitions:
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(1)
(parry) to block or deflect an attack; or to avoid answering something by responding cleverly or indirectly
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)