belgard

English

Etymology

From Italian bel guardo.

Noun

belgard (plural belgards)

1. (obsolete) A loving look, an amorous glance.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Vpon her eyelids many Graces sate, / Vnder the shadow of her euen browes, / Working belgards, and amorous retrate […]

Anagrams

• garbled