lyard

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Middle English

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Etymology

From Old French liart or Latin liardus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈliː.ard/, /ˈliː.art/

Adjective

lyard

  1. (of a horse) having dappled white and grey spots
    • late 1300s, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Friar's Tale:
      Þat was wel twiȝt, myn owene lyard boy. / I pray God save þee, and Seinte Loy!
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Noun

lyard

  1. a horse which is dappled and spotted in the aforementioned way
    • c. 1264, unknown author, Richard of Almaigne, quoted in 1856, Thomas Percy (editor), Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, page 172:
      Be the luef, be the loht, sue Edward, / Thou shalt ride sporeless o thy lyard,
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    • c. 1370-1390, William Langdon, “The Vision of Piers Plowman”, in Thomas Wright, editor, The Vision and the Creed of Piers Ploughman, volume 2, published 1882, page 352:
      Ac so soone so the Samaritan / Hadde sighte of this leode, / He lighte a-down of lyard,
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Adjective

lyard

  1. Alternative spelling of lyart
    • 1778, Tobias George Smollett, editor, The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature:
      In har'st at the shearing, nae swankies are jeering,
      Our bansters are wrinkled and lyard and grey:
      At a fair or a preaching, nae wooing nae fleetching, []
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