Foil

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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Invention

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History and politics

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What Wikipedia says

A foil is one of the three weapons used in the sport of fencing. It is a flexible weapon of total length 110 cm (43 in) or under, rectangular in cross section, weighing under 500 g (18 oz), with a blunt tip. As with the épée, points are only scored by making contact with the tip.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Foil (fencing)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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