From Middle English sarde, borrowed from Old French sarde, from Latin sarda, sardius. Doublet of sardius.
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(countable, uncountable) A variety of carnelian, of a rich reddish yellow or brownish red color.
(countable, uncountable) 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.
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Translations (5)
fi sardi (a gemstone) · mi harariu (a gemstone) · grc σάρδιον (a gemstone) · ru сердоли́к (a gemstone) · th ซาร์ด (a gemstone)
From Middle English serden, from Old English seorþan (“to violate, rape”), from Proto-Germanic *serþaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sert- (“to hit”).
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(obsolete) To have sexual intercourse with (a woman).
Foltere. To iape, to sard, to fucke, to swive, to occupye. 1598, John Florio, Worlde of Wordes:
Go, teach your grandam to sard, a Nottingham proverb. 1617, Howell, Letters, page 17:
[…] 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, […] 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, pages 8–9:
Quhilk will, for purging of thir neirs: / Sard up the ta raw, and doun the uther. 1540, Sir David Lyndsay, Ane Pleasant Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis, lines 3027–8; republished in The Poetical Works of Sir David Lyndsay, volume 2, 1879, page 152: