bard
noun
[ bɑːd ]
• a poet, traditionally one reciting epics and associated with a particular oral tradition.
• "our national bard, Robert Burns"
Similar:
poet,
versifier,
verse-maker,
rhymester,
rhymer,
sonneteer,
lyricist,
lyrist,
elegist,
laureate,
balladeer,
swan,
troubadour,
rhymist,
maker,
metricist,
ballad-monger,
idyllist,
Parnassian,
poeticule,
poetaster,
Origin:
Middle English: from Scottish Gaelic bàrd, Irish bard, Welsh bardd, of Celtic origin. In Scotland in the 16th century it was a derogatory term for an itinerant musician, but was later romanticized by Sir Walter Scott.
bard
noun
• a rasher of fat bacon placed on meat or game before roasting.
bard
verb
• cover (meat or game) with rashers of fat bacon.
• "the venison was barded and marinated"
Origin:
early 18th century: from French barde, a transferred sense of barde ‘armour for the breast and flanks of a warhorse’, based on Arabic barḏa'a ‘saddlecloth, padded saddle’.
