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sword-and-sandal
sword-and-sandal
Of film, to features the exploits and adventures of ancient and biblical figures, as was prominent in Italy in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Sword-and-sandal films dominated cinemas for a period after the second World War, but they were quashed halfway through the sixties by the Spaghetti Western.
Common Names:
| Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
|---|
| Ste | | - | English |
| Gona | | - | Kurdish |
| Ahoth | | - | Biblical Latin |
| Hananias | | - | Biblical Greek |
| Amalie | | ah-MAH-lee-ə | German |
| Andrej | | - | Slovene, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian |