/ · 1894 Brewer’s · S · Scrimmage
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A tussle; a slight battle. From the obsolete scrimer, a fencer; French, escrimeur; same root as escarmouch, our skirmish.
“Prince Ouffur at this skrymage, for all his pryde,
Fled full fast and sought no guide.”
MS. Lansdowne, 200, f. 10.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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