karabela
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thumb|350px|Karabela sabre, 17th century right|thumb|150px|Karabela of King Sigismund III of Poland
A karabela was a type of Polish sabre () popular in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Polish fencer Wojciech Zabłocki defines a karabela as a decorated sabre with the handle stylized as the head of a bird and an open crossguard.