The great beasts lumbered like monsters, buried beneath clanking plates of barding.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kinslayer Wars]

I look like a horse myself, so fancy clothing on me would look like barding on a mule.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Black Gryphon]

Satiran had asked for and gotten the full formal rig-out, with barding, bridle bells, and all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brightly Burning]

I could even braid your tail up with some of the blue and silver cord that was with the barding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Magic's Promise]

At the back of the company, the fire drakes wore ornate red barding, surreal against the green jungle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time Streams]

I doubt his barding will be sufficient to withstand the cold steel of those whose voracious demands he is failing to satisfy.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Everyone knew that Companions went about in elaborate blue-and-silver tack, with silver bridle bells and embroidered barding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Take A Thief]

The people are poor, and Mason wants a different life than barding for people who haven't got an heroic bone in their bodies.    From Wordnik.com.  [The WritingYA Weblog: Quayles Guide to Adventure: Standard Hero Behavior] Reference

Does the EULA you'd presumably have to sign when you buy the barding keep you from reselling it and thus voiding the first sale doctrine?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Question 3: Virtual Property] Reference

They carried their armor, a set of hinged plates that protected vulnerable head, chest, and flank, as if it weighed no more than a bit of barding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exile's Honor]

Dark plate and chain barding glittered and rang, echoing the armor of its rider -- a tall, massively built figure, encased from head to toe in black plate armor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Villains by Necessity]

Their own entourage was so used to this by now that there had been no need for Elspeth to ask anyone to go get Gwena, drape her with her ceremonial barding and bells, and bring her to the Great Hall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Storm Breaking]

There was light barding that went along with the outfit, but after regarding it wistfully for a moment, Yfandes agreed that the barding would be far more trouble than it was worth and Vanyel bundled it away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Magic's Promise]

For Zhukov had massed twenty-seven armoured bri - gades above the confluence of the Warthe and the Oder, and Rokossovski, deploying nearly as great a strength, had reached the Baltic on either side of Kolberg and was bom - barding Stettin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barbarossa]

She rode a white mare in white leather barding, and she wore a long split surcoat stitched from the narrow skins of ermine with the heads left on, showing their pointed teeth and false eyes of onyx; the black-tipped tails hung like so many tassels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wildfire] Reference

Kellen realized with relief that this time, when he rode out with Shalkan, he'd be doing it with a proper saddle; the Master Armorer took Shalkan's measurements, and in a few moments, several sets of saddles and barding had been brought for Shalkan to choose from.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tran Siberian] Reference

It was a nominee for last year's Cybils in the Fantasy and Sci-Fi category, and filled with bad barding, crazy names, inept witches and cranky orcs, it captured our imaginations as a great first novel and--hopefully--a harbinger of more fun and funny fantasy from Mr. Anderson.    From Wordnik.com.  [The WritingYA Weblog: The WBBT, Day Four: John David Anderson] Reference

Gwena was arrayed in the "riderless" version of Companion full dress; no saddle, but with a blue and silver blanket cut like her barding& decorated at all the points with silver bells, a blue-dyed leather hackamore with silver tassels at the cheekpieces, and reins bedecked with more silver bells.    From Wordnik.com.  [Storm Breaking]

How about a little less barding and a little more Avoning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference

Between the crowds of protesters and barricades, the video shows a flowing, pale green image that resembles an erect rider atop a horse in Medieval-like barding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crooks and Liars] Reference

If the animal (say a griffon) is wearing barding and is obviously trained and well behaved, it might get a different reception than a feral wild cat that's snapping at everyone.    From Wordnik.com.  [D / RPG News] Reference

He charged the king himself; and Richard, unwilling to harm his own dear soldier Aymer, halted wondering, till the pike of the destrier pierced his own charger through the barding, and the king lay rolling in the dust.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last of the Barons — Complete] Reference

“General Release” given by JOHN BALLIOL to EDWARD I., 2nd January, 1292: it will be observed that this knight displays the arms of his house, No. 134, upon his Shield, and also, in addition to the Fan-Crest, upon the barding of his charger.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Handbook to English Heraldry] Reference

A common barding-school where only superficial accomplishments are taught, but one in which the actual problems of –.    From Wordnik.com.  [Just Patty] Reference

So, Bethseda is selling a simple "horse barding".    From Wordnik.com.  [Question 3: Virtual Property] Reference

There's also equipment and barding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flames Rising Horror Webzine] Reference