palliard

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The limping palliard tore the bandages from his mock wounds, shouldered his crutch, and trudged hastily after them.

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  1. A vagabond who lies upon straw; a lecher; a lewd person. A Palliard is he that goeth in a patched cloke, and hys Doxy goeth in like apparell. Fraternity of Vagabonds (1561), quoted in Ribton-Turner's [Vagrants and Vagrancy, p. 594. A clapper dudgeon is a beggar born; some call him a palliard. Dekker, Vil. Disc., sig. O 2. (Nares.) Thieves, panders, palliards, sins of every sort; Those are the manufactures we export. Dryden, Hind and Panther, ii. 563.

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  • The limping palliard tore the bandages from his mock wounds, shouldered his crutch, and trudged hastily after them. —  Rookwood
  • 30] "Togged out to the ruffian, no doubt," said the palliard, who was incomparably the shabbiest rascal in the corps. —  Rookwood
  • No whip-jack, palliard, patrico; —  Rookwood
  • Next to the knight of Malta stood the whip-jack, habited in his sailor gear -- striped shirt and dirty canvas trousers; and adjoining him was the palliard, a loathsome tatterdemalion, his dress one heap of rags, and his discolored skin one mass of artificial leprosy and imposthumes. —  Rookwood
  • He ran back a few yards to give himself an impetus, returned, and, placing his hands upon the shoulders of a stalwart vagabond near to him, threw a summerset upon the broad cap of a palliard, who was so jammed in the midst that he could not have stirred to avoid the shock; thence, without pausing, he vaulted forwards, and dropped lightly upon the ground in front of —  Rookwood
 

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  1. from French paillard, one who lies upon straw, a dissolute person, from paille, straw: see pale, pallet.
 

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