Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The office of bard; position or standing as a bard.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being a bard.
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- noun The state of being a
bard .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The patcher of clothes meets with no bardship or trouble
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He was on a platform surrounded by grotesque men in blue gowns and caps, which marked high rank in Celtic bardship.
Faces and Places 1884
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My own private story likewise, my love adventures, my rambles; the frowns and smiles of fortune on my bardship my poems and fragments, that must never see the light, shall be occasionally inserted.
Robert Burns John Campbell Shairp 1852
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H. is doubtless in England before even the date of this letter: -- he bears a despatch from me to your bardship.
The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 1 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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Jenny Geddes, and down came the Highlandman, horse and all, and down came Jenny and my bardship; so I have got such a skinful of bruises and wounds, that I shall be at least four weeks before I dare venture on my journey to Edinburgh.
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I set as little by princes, lords, clergy, critics, &c., as all these respective gentry do by my bardship.
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Jenny and my bardship; so I have got such a skinful of bruises and wounds, that I shall be at least four weeks before I dare venture on my journey to Edinburgh.
The Letters of Robert Burns Robert Burns 1777
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From my view of the lands, and his reception of my bardship, my hopes in that business are rather mended; but still they are but slender.
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From my view of the lands, and his reception of my bardship, my hopes in that business are rather mended; but still they are but slender.
The Letters of Robert Burns Robert Burns 1777
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I set as little by princes, lords, clergy, critics, etc., as, all these respective gentry do by my bardship.
The Letters of Robert Burns Robert Burns 1777
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