imbroccata

• imbrocata

From Italian imbroccata, feminine past participle of imbroccare (“to hit a target”).

imbroccata (plural imbroccatas)

1. (obsolete) A hit or thrust.
   • 1600 (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Cynthias Reuels, or The Fountayne of Selfe-Loue. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC:

     But then, you haue your passages, and imbroccata's in courtship

   1. (fencing) A particular thrust

• “imbroccata”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

imbroccata f sg

1. feminine singular of imbroccato

• rimboccata