duello

1. (obsolete) A duel.Examples: "Come ſir Andrew, there's no remedie, the Gentleman will for his honors ſake haue one bowt with you: he cannot by the Duello avoide it: but hee has promiſed me, as he is a Gentleman and a Soldiour, he will not hurt you."; "the duello or monomachia"; "The native State of Patrick Henry Hanway was a moss-grown member of the republic and had been one of the original thirteen. It possessed with other impedimenta a moss-grown aristocracy that borrowed money, devoured canvasbacks, drank burgundy, wore spotless tow in summer, clung to the duello, and talked of days of greatness which had been before the war."obsolete