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

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