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bayard: tags: [archaic] [equestrian]

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a Dutch legend about a magical bay horse
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1. Properly, a bay horse, but often any horse. Commonly in the phrase blind bayard, an old blind horse.
2. A stupid, clownish fellow. [Obs.]

Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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FACE. He is busy with his spirits, but we'll upon him.

SUB. How now! what mates, what Baiards have we here?

FACE. I told you, he would be furious.—Sir, here's Nab,

Ben Jonson. The Alchemist (1610)

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