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barded en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ˈbɑːdɪd/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈbɑɹdəd/ (General-American)

Etymology

From bard + -ed. See bard (“horse armour”).

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Of a horse, accoutered with defensive armor.
    • 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. c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], lines 9-13:
  2. (not-comparable) Wearing rich caparisons.
    • Fifteen hundred men […] barded and richly trapped. 1841, William Reader, The Ruins of Kenilworth, an Historical Poem:

barded en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /ˈbɑːdɪd/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈbɑɹdəd/ (General-American)

Etymology

From bard + -ed. See bard (“horse armour”).

Meanings

  1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of bard
    form of bard