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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[F.

paillard

, orig., one addicted to the couch, fr.

paille

straw. See

a small bed.]

A born beggar; a vagabond.

[Obs.]

Halliwell.

A lecher; a lewd person.

[Obs.]

Dryden.

Noun.

A lecher; a lewd person. [Not used nor English.]

palliard ‎(plural palliards)

(archaic) a beggar or vagrant, especially a professional one
- 1964: They all knew him. A palliard, some said on Henley Street, a wild rogue. — Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like the Sun