Also talwar. [Hindī talwār (also tarwār).] An (Indian) sabre.
1834. [A. Prinsep], Baboo, I. viii. 125. With my tulwar unsheathed on my arm, I moved to the edge of the tope.
1861. Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxf., xliv. I just caught the flash of his tulwar, and thought it was all up.
1893. J. Payn, Mod. Whittington, I. 195. The tulwar of the Rajah of Bundlecumbad: the scabbard be described as a triumph of Eastern decoration.
