barded

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English

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Etymology

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From bard +‎ -ed. See bard (horse armour).

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Adjective

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barded (not comparable)

  1. (of a horse) Accoutered with defensive armor
    • c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: []”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [] (First Folio), London: [] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], lines 9-13:
      Grim-visag'd war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front;
      And now, instead of mounting barded steeds
      To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,
      He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber
      To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.
  2. Wearing rich caparisons.
    • 1841, William Reader, The Ruins of Kenilworth, an Historical Poem:
      Fifteen hundred men [] barded and richly trapped.

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