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sword and sorcery

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Adjective

  1. Of or pertaining to a genre of narratives—including short stories, novels, television shows, films, and computer games—which combines wizardry and other fantastical supernatural elements with violent combat using pre-modern weaponry.
  2. Alternative spelling of sword and sorcery.

Noun

  1. A genre of narratives—including short stories, novels, television shows, films, and computer games—which combines wizardry and other fantastical supernatural elements with violent combat using pre-modern weaponry.
  2. Alternative spelling of sword and sorcery.

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