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n. - An ornamental caparison for a horse; A lyric poet v. - Put a caparison on.

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Usage examples (37)
  • KING: And what do know of the man known as the bard?
  • The night of the bard was the night that the blackmail began.
  • To bend a phrase from that word-coining bard, "critics, you doth protest too much."
  • "The bard was a viaduct between northeast India and the rest of the world," said he.
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