Hi Fernando,
Kind of like a wakizashi, although I'd call it an "o tanto," in the sense that (as I understand it), a coustille is an outsized dagger, rather than a swordlet. Perhaps this is a questionable distinction?
Digging around a little more, I suspect that coustille is a name that Oakeshott came up with, so I don't know if it's the proper name for this weapon. Coustille does serve as a categorical name.
F
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