Bayard
ərd noun
1.
a magical legendary horse in medieval chivalric romances.
2.
a mock-heroic name for any horse.
3.
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Bayard
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So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
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Bayard1 (ˈbeɪəd) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| a legendary horse that figures prominently in medieval romance | |
| Bayard2 (ˈbeɪəd, French bajar) | |
| —n | |
| Chevalier de (ʃəvalje də), original name Pierre de Terrail ?1473--1524, French soldier, known as le chevalier sans peur et sans reproche (the fearless and irreproachable knight) | |
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Bayard
generic or mock-heroic name for a horse, late 14c., from O.Fr. Baiard, name of the bay-colored magic steed given by Charlemagne to Renaud in the legends, from O.Fr. baiart "bay-colored" (see bay (4)). The name also was used attributively of gentlemen of courage and integrity,
in this sense from Pierre du Terrail, seigneur de Bayard (1473-1524), Fr. knight celebrated as Chevalier sans peur et sans reproche; however the meaning deteriorated in later times till it came to denote blind recklessness and even actual blindness. The surname is perhaps in reference to hair color.
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