bayard

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This was a splendid bayard, of at least forty pounds' weight I laid my prize upon some green reeds, and covered it carefully with the same cool material.

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  1. Bay; of a bay color: applied to a horse.
  2. A bay horse; generally, any horse: formerly frequent in proverbial use, especially with the epithet blind or bold. Blind bayard moves the mill. Philips. Who so bold as blind bayard? Proverbial saying.
  3. A person who is self-confident and ignorant: usually with the epithet blind or bold. The more we know, the more we know we want: What Bayard boulder then the ignorant? Marston, What you Will, Ind. Phillip the second, late king of Spain, perceiving that many Blind Bayards were overbold to undertake the working of his mines of silver in the West Indies, etc. Gerard Malynes, Lex Mercatoria (1622), p. 189. What are most of our papists, but stupid, ignorant and blind bayards? Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 609. [Obsolete or archaic in all uses.]
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  • This was a splendid bayard, of at least forty pounds' weight I laid my prize upon some green reeds, and covered it carefully with the same cool material. —  In the Heart of Africa
  • The word bayard, "a person armed with the self-confidence of ignorance," seems indispensable. —  Daily News-Record
  • This was a splendid bayard, of at least forty pounds 'weight. —  In the Heart of Africa
  • Feed URL: http://rss. topix.net/rss/city/fort-bayard-nm. xml —  Random feeds from Syndic8.com
  • Casual men's shoes in anhima were runny fiddling bayard ago to be izmir to a halitus in coma of anterior rep. —  Rational Review
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  1. Early modern English also bayerd, baiard, bayart, from Middle English bayard, bayart, from Old French bayard, baiard, baiart (= Provencal baiart), bay, a bay horse, from bai, bay: see bay and -ard. The adjective came to be a general appellative of a bay horse, especially of Renaud's (Rinaldo's) magic steed in the Charlemagne romances; later of any horse, especially in alliterative proverbial use, bold bayard, blind bayard, often with reference to reckless or stupid persons, perhaps associated in the latter sense with Old French bayard, gaping, staring, one who gapes or gazes, from bayer, baer, gape, gaze: see bay.
  2. from Old French baiard, bayart, a basket used for the carrying of earth and fastened about the neck; perhaps a fanciful application of bayard, a horse: see bayard.
 

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