affaire d'honneur

1. 1.

   a prearranged fight with deadly weapons by two people (accompanied by seconds) in order to settle a quarrel over a point of honor

   Synonymsduel

   Broaderfight

Questions about affaire d'honneur

What does affaire d'honneur mean?

affaire d'honneur means "a prearranged fight with deadly weapons by two people (accompanied by seconds) in order to settle a quarrel over a point of honor".

What is another word for affaire d'honneur?

Close synonyms include duel. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is affaire d'honneur a common word?

affaire d'honneur is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.