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or barde
: a piece of armor or ornament for a horse's neck, breast, or flank
barded; barding; bards
1
: to furnish (a horse's neck, breast, or flank) with a piece of armor or ornament : to furnish with bards (see bard entry 2)
2
[borrowed from French barder, verbal derivative of barde "strip of fat to cover meat," figurative use of barde "piece of armor for a horse, packsaddle"]
: to dress meat for cooking by covering with strips of fat
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Noun (1)
a bard best known for a series of love poems to his raven-haired beloved
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JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024
Displaced by war, these Ukrainian amateur actors play their blood-red version of the bard’s toughest tragedy for the Royal Shakespeare Company.
—Defne Karabatur, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2024
Strike with your fighter, backstab with the rogue, fling a spell from the wizard, and have your bard reset the fighter's cooldown, all while a baddie very slowly winds up and swings at random party members.
—Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 11 May 2024
Poets Photo: Taylor Swift via YouTube In The Tortured Poets Department, American bard and billionaire Taylor Swift invokes the story of Cassandra, the Trojan princess who receives the gift of clairvoyance from the Greek god Apollo, a lover who later curses her never to be believed.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2024
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Noun
Perhaps no other bard has captured the sentiments of Ukraine and its emigrants as fully as Taras Shevchenko.
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Poet, lover, outspoken political activist.
—JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024
Displaced by war, these Ukrainian amateur actors play their blood-red version of the bard’s toughest tragedy for the Royal Shakespeare Company.
—Defne Karabatur, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2024
Strike with your fighter, backstab with the rogue, fling a spell from the wizard, and have your bard reset the fighter's cooldown, all while a baddie very slowly winds up and swings at random party members.
—Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 11 May 2024
Poets Photo: Taylor Swift via YouTube In The Tortured Poets Department, American bard and billionaire Taylor Swift invokes the story of Cassandra, the Trojan princess who receives the gift of clairvoyance from the Greek god Apollo, a lover who later curses her never to be believed.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2024
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“Bard.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bard. Accessed 4 Jul. 2024.
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