baldric

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If I thought so, I would go and sit down on the form cum parvulis, and learn the precious lesson with all my heart BEADLE.--But I submit, an obstacle to conversions is the intrusion and impertinence of that Swiss fellow with the baldric--the officer who answers to the beadle of the British Islands, and is pacing about the church with an eye on the congregation.

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  1. noun A belt, usually of ornamented leather, worn across the chest to support a sword or bugle.

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  • His baldric was freshly polished, the knife-handles gleaming in their sheaths. —  David A
  • He took off the wolf-pelt to put on his baldric, hiding his scabbard back under the pelt when he was done. —  Carey, Jaqueline - Kushiel's Dart orig
  • I shall wear my new baldric--the red one. —  The Grey Cloak
  • [21] Across his breast was a leather baldric, supporting a broad, short sword of the perrillo fashion. —  The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes
  • At this moment vast possibilities of political power suddenly widen upon his view; Sordello, the minstrel, a poor archer's son, is discovered to be in truth the only son of the great Ghibellin chieftain, Salinguerra; he is loved by Palma, who, with her youth and beauty, brings him eminent station, authority, and a passion of devoted ambition on his behalf; his father flings upon Sordello's neck the baldric which constitutes him the Emperor's representative in Northern Italy. —  Robert Browning
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  1. Middle English baudrik, from Old French baudre and from Middle High German balderich.

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  1. Formerly also baudrick, etc., from Middle English baudrik, bawdrik, bauderik, etc., earlier baudry, from Old French baudrei, baldrei, baldret (later baudroy and, with added suffix, baudrier) = Provencal baudrat (Middle Latin baldringus), apparently from Middle High German balderich, a girdle, perhaps from Old High German balz = English belt, from Latin balteus: see belt.
 

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/ˈbɔldrɪk/
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