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    Real Meaning of Fisticuffs

    Jul 25, 2018 2 minutes
    BY MARK HATMAKER

    That image reveals the current connotation of the word: a synonym for boxing or an archaic word for fistfight. Originally, however, there was a bit more to it than that. To get to what that “more to it” was‚ we will have to digress into a short history of fashion.

    TAKE A GANDER at woodcuts, paintings, lithographs or whatever medium from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries that

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