Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
goliard .
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Examples
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Chaucer, in his description of the Miller, calls this merry narrator of fabliaux _a jangler and a goliardeis_.
Wine, Women, and Song Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse Various 1866
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Ploughman_ the _goliardeis_ is further explained to be _a glutton of words_, and talks in Latin rhyme. [
Wine, Women, and Song Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse Various 1866
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