palliard
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English payllart (1484), Middle French paillard, from Middle French paille (“straw”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]palliard (plural palliards)
- (archaic) A beggar or vagrant, especially a professional one; (earlier especially) a lecher.
- 1614, Walter Raleigh, Hist. World, II, page 476:
- A most luxurious and effeminate Palliard he was.
- 1964, Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like the Sun:
- They all knew him. A palliard, some said on Henley Street, a wild rogue.
Alternative forms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]- palliardise (noun), palliardry, palliardy
- palliardize (verb)
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