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† ˈtailard Obs.
In 4 taylard.
[f. tail n.1 + -ard.]
One with a tail.
An opprobrious epithet founded on a legend told first of St. Augustine at Dorchester (or Rochester), and later of Thomas à Becket in Kent, in which the people of these places were said to be cursed with tails for indignities done by attaching a tail to these holy men. See Layamon 29535–86, Fuller Ch. Hist. ii. ii. §22, Lambarde Kent 400, Stanley Hist. Mem. Cant. (1872) I. 53, and references in the last. On the continent, tails used to be ascribed to Englishmen generally. Cf. tailed1 1 and long-tail 2 a.
13..Coer de L. 724 The kyng callid Rychard be name, And clepyd hym taylard, and sayde hym schame. Ibid. 1996. Ibid. 2112 The emperour..cried, as uncourteys: Out, taylards, of my paleys! Now go and say your tayled king That I owe him no thing. |