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baritsu en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /bɑːˈɹɪtsuː/

Etymology

Variant of Bartitsu, used mainly after Conan Doyle (for whom it may have been a misprint).

Meanings

1. (uncountable) Bartitsu, a martial art, based on jujitsu, popular in late-Victorian England.
   • We tottered together upon the brink of the fall. I have some knowledge, however, of baritsu, or the Japanese system of wrestling, which has more than once been very useful to me. 1903, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Empty House:

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