Victoria Sheinkin
Scabbards are stone, metal, leather or whatever-made-of protectors for swords, knives and all other large blades. But where does the word come from?
The 1300’s Anglo-French escauberc simply meant vagina; drawing upon what is probably not the most developed imagination, the physical resemblance between the vagina-penis encounter to the blade-sheath encounter- gave birth to this word!
