lyard
Middle English edit
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Etymology edit
From Old French liart or Latin liardus.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
lyard
- (of a horse) having dappled white and grey spots
- late 1300s, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Friar's Tale:
- Þat was wel twiȝt, myn owene lyard boy. / I pray God save þee, and Seinte Loy!
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- late 1300s, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Friar's Tale:
Noun edit
lyard
- a horse which is dappled and spotted in the aforementioned way
- c. 1264, unknown author, Richard of Almaigne, quoted in 1856, Thomas Percy (editor), Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, page 172:
- Be the luef, be the loht, sue Edward, / Thou shalt ride sporeless o thy lyard,
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- c. 1370-1390, William Langdon, “The Vision of Piers Plowman”, in Thomas Wright, editor, The Vision and the Creed of Piers Ploughman, volume 2, published 1882, page 352:
- Ac so soone so the Samaritan / Hadde sighte of this leode, / He lighte a-down of lyard,
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- c. 1264, unknown author, Richard of Almaigne, quoted in 1856, Thomas Percy (editor), Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, page 172:
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lyard
- Alternative spelling of lyart
- 1778, Tobias George Smollett, editor, The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature:
- In har'st at the shearing, nae swankies are jeering,
Our bansters are wrinkled and lyard and grey:
At a fair or a preaching, nae wooing nae fleetching, […]- (please add an English translation of this quotation)