noun
definition
One who fights with his fists; especially a professional prize fighter; a boxer.
Examples of pugilists in a Sentence
Take on the persona of legendary pugilists like Muhammad Ali and Smokin' Joe Frazier, and work your way through to ranks until you find yourself across the ring from a bitter rival at Madison Square Gardens.
Late Minoan art in its finest aspect is best illustrated by the animated ivory figures, wall paintings, and gesso duro reliefs at Cnossus, by the painted stucco designs at Hagia Triada, and the steatite vases found on the same site with zones in reliefs exhibiting life-like scenes of warriors, toreadors, gladiators, wrestlers and pugilists, and of a festal throng perhaps representing a kind of " harvest home."
A tall funnel-shaped vase of this class, of which a considerable part has been preserved, is divided into zones showing bull-hunting scenes, wrestlers and pugilists in gladiatorial costume, the whole executed in a most masterly manner.