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(mineralogy) A variety of carnelian, of a rich reddish yellow or brownish red color.
Any of various brownish red earth pigments formerly used in cosmetics and painting; has more yellow, hardly any blue (see puce), is lighter than russet and darker than traditional carnelian.
[…] and thence ſprouteth that obſcene appellation of Sarding ſandes, with the draffe of the carterly Hoblobs thereabouts, concoct or diſgeaſt for a ſcripture, verity, when the right chriſtendome of it, is Cerdicke ſands, or Cerdick ſhore, […]
1617, Howell, Letters, page 17:
Go, teach your grandam to sard, a Nottingham proverb.
Further reading
John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley, Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present (1903), page 101