Scimitar

According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the word Scimitar means a saber having a curved blade with the edge on the convex side and used chiefly by Arabs and Turks. This word was found in the reading piece ‘Sweat’ by Zora Neale Hurtston. It was in the context “One day as Delia came down the kitchen steps she saw his chalky-white fangs curved like scimitars hung in the wire meshes.” From the definition given above, I can conclude that the author used scimitars as a simile to describe how curved the snake’s fangs were.

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