Definition of "boyard" []

• A member of a Russian aristocratic order abolished by Peter the Great. Also, one of a privileged class in Romania. (noun)

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• "As for me, I fell to the lot of a boyard, who put me to work in his garden, and gave me twenty lashes a day."
• "And as a devoted grand-child i loved (and still love) to spend weeks in my grand parents lovely house in Fouras a little village of Charente Maritime (to help you find it on the map i can say that from the house of my grand parents you can see fort boyard – yes yes the same as the one in the famous game)."
• "Happy at having got her way, the princess decided that the first thing to be done was to find some old white-haired boyard, whose advice she could trust, and then to be very careful in choosing her horse."