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Old 22nd March 2023, 12:58 AM   #12
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Here are a couple of pages from Claude's book, where he is using genoui to refer to this specific type of dagger:



There is indeed a version with a koummaya style hilt and straight blade, and Claude refers to shorter (under 40cm in length) examples as genoui, while longer ones he calls sboula.

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