epee
- n a fencing sword similar to a foil but with a heavier blade
- THE COMPETITION Few will be able to parry Jacobson's advances to gold in this event's Olympic debut (a cavalryman's discipline, it joins foil and epee).
- With the foils, against the limited target of a padded chest; with the stiffer French duelling sword or epee, with which hits count when scored on any part of the body; with the .
- In epee, you score by jabbing your opponent anywhere with the point of the weapon; in foil, you score only by touching point to torso; in saber, you score with any part of the .