Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - bard
Bard
bard
1. n. 1 a hist. a Celtic minstrel. b the winner of a prize for Welsh verse at an Eisteddfod. 2 poet. a poet, esp. one treating heroic themes. Phrases and idioms the Bard (or the Bard of Avon) Shakespeare. Derivatives bardic adj. Etymology: Gael. & Ir. b{aacute}rd, Welsh bardd, f. OCelt. 2. n. & v. --n. a rasher of fat bacon placed on meat or game before roasting. --v.tr. cover (meat etc.) with bards. Etymology: F barde, orig. = horse's breastplate, ult. f. Arab.
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Scottish Gaelic & Irish Date: 15th century 1. a tribal poet-singer skilled in composing and reciting verses on heroes and their deeds, a composer, singer, or declaimer of epic or heroic verse, poet, ~ic adjective II. noun or ~e Etymology: Middle French ~e, from Old Italian ~a, from Arabic dialect ~‘a packsaddle, saddle cover Date: 15th century a piece of armor or ornament for a horse's neck, breast, or flank, III. transitive verb Date: circa 1521 to furnish with ~s, to dress meat for cooking by covering with strips of fat ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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