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What is savate?

What is savate? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. a form of French martial art that involves combinations of punching and kicking moves
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Nationalistic thugs who double as acrobats from the fictional Balkan country of Karonia, The Fearsome Foot-Fighters are masters of savate, a French form of kickboxing.
It was with the Revolution that the rapier went out, and the savate came in.
Max had not expected the savate from an Englishman, and he was very glad of the warning.
He gives lessons just as readily in dancing, fencing, sparring, and savate.
Indeed, if the object of boxing be to use all means of offence and defence, the savate is indispensable.
Luckily for the Englishman he had clutched Dubois before the latter could attempt any of the expedients of the savate.

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