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• n  a curved oriental saber; the edge is on the convex side of the blade

• Color the land red for revolution With one hand lifting up the falling sky, with the other holding up a glinting scimitar, by one lightning stroke he shakes the whole.
• It's become a habit in Pakistan that whenever a ruler's popularity disintegrates, he or she begins waving the scimitar of Islam.
• After five days, the number of besiegers being reduced from 600 to 40, the Imam suddenly burst out of the palace gates flourishing a long scimitar.

News & Articles

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• Aviation Partners Boeing Launches 737-900ER Split Scimitar Winglets with Order from United Airlines
  SEATTLE, June 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Aviation Partners Boeing (APB) today announced it has formally launched the 737-900ER (Extended Range) Split Scimitar Winglet program with an order from United Airlines.  ...
  June 17, 2013 - PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
• Journalist Kathleen McClain dies at 60
  Kathleen McClain, award-winning reporter at the Memphis Press-Scimitar and The Commercial Appeal, dies at 60.
  June 15, 2013 - Memphis Commercial Appeal

Quotes

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• Salman Rushdie in Stanford Report
  Rushdie recalled that he had a bottle of bourbon in his left hand and, in his right, "sometimes a whip, sometimes a scimitar."