Citations:flerd
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English citations of flerd
- dialectal, type of clothing
- 1892, Oliver Heslop, A glossary of words used in the county of Northumberland and on the Tyneside[1], volume 68, page 293:
- FLERDS, showy or gaudy articles of women's dress.
- an Old English militia?
- 1865, John Earle, Two of the Saxon Chronicles[2]:
- The flerd was the national militia, embodied in each shire under the ealdorman: so called from their marching off on service (faran); in Latin named expeditio.