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Webster 1913 Edition


Barded

Bard′ed

,
p.
Adj.
[See
Bard
horse armor.]
1.
Accoutered with defensive armor; – said of a horse.
2.
(Her.)
Wearing rich caparisons.
Fifteen hundred men . . .
barded
and richly trapped.
Stow.

Webster 1828 Edition


Barded

B'ARDED

,
Adj.
In heraldry, a caparisoned.

Definition 2024


barded

barded

English

Adjective

barded (not comparable)

  1. (of a horse) Accoutered with defensive armor
    • circa 1591-1594, William Shakespeare, Richard III, Act I, Scene I, Lines 9-13
    Grim-visag'd war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front;
    And now, instead of mounting barded steeds
    To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,
    He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber
    To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.
  2. Wearing rich caparisons.
    • Stow
      Fifteen hundred men [] barded and richly trapped.

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