Definition of "barde" [barde]

• Variant of bard2. (noun)

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• "But listen to the mocking birde to micking barde making bared!"
• "Why, that the barde will sing _after_ the battaille's teste!"
• "Francisque-Michel and Th. Wright, _Vie de Merlin attribuée à Geoffroy de Monmouth, suivie des prophéties de ce barde tirées de l'histoire des Bretons_, Paris, 1837, in 8vo, pp. 67 _et seq."