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baldric
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synonyms: hanger ???
tags: [fashion]
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Definition:1. a belt for holding a sword, musical instruments or other accoutrements2. Blackadder's dogsbody
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obsolete spellings include baldrick, bawdrick, bauldrick
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Hyacinth: Go with Richard, try your costume.
Onslow: I don't know why everybody takes it for granted that Onslow is a roundhead.
Daisy: You'll always be a cavalier to me.
Richard: I hope we've got a baldric your size.
BBC. Keeping Up Appearances: Christmas 1995
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Too big for a youth, too small for a grown man, an experienced eye might have taken him for a farmer's son upon a journey had it not been for the long sword which, dangling from a leather baldric, hit against the calves of its owner as he walked, and against the rough side of his steed when he was on horseback.
Alexandre Dumas. The Three Musketeers
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Blackadder: Baldrick is wearing a sheep’s-bladder jacket, with matching dung-ball accessories. Hair by Crazy Meg of Bedlam [obscured by laughter]. Notice how the overpowering aroma of rotting pilchards has been woven cunningly into the ensemble.
BBC. Blackadder. Season 3: Nob and Nobility
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he wore yellow buskins and had a Moorish cutlass slung from a baldric across his breast.
Miguel de Cervantes. Don Quixote
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