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Picard, n.2 and a.
(ˈpɪkɑːd, ‖ pikar)
Also 7 Picardin.
[a. F. picard in the same sense.]
A. n.
a. A native or inhabitant of Picardy, a region and former province centred on Amiens in northern France, now the departments of Somme, Aisne, and Oise.
b. The dialect of French spoken there.
a1400[see Breton n. and a.]. 1598J. Stow Survey of London 116 Iohn Mutas (a Picarde) or Frenchman. a1666Evelyn Diary an. 1644 (1955) II. 138 The University [of Orleans] is..divided now..into that of 4 Nations French, High-dutch, Normans and Picardins. 1900H. Belloc Paris i. 6 Here Calvin the Picard preached his Batavian theory. 1903Knowledge Dec. 267/2 The dialect of the Isle of France supplanted Picard, Burgundian, and Norman, and became the French language. 1924G. B. Shaw Saint Joan iv. 40 Are these Burgundians and Bretons and Picards and Gascons beginning to call themselves Frenchmen? 1932W. L. Graff Lang. 377 French group, with its subdivisions:..Norman, Picard, [etc.]. 1968E. Hyams Mischief Makers ix. 165 His name was Waché and he was, I think, from the north, a Picard. 1976N. Roberts Face of France iv. 49 There are usually witnesses who have seen ‘a sallow man..of North African type’ near the scene of the crime, of which, later, a blond Norman or Picard may be convicted.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to Picardy or its inhabitants.
1650J. Howell in Cotgrave's Fr.-Eng. Dict. sig. a4, The French toung hath divers dialects, the Picard, that of Iersey and Guernsay..the Provensall, the Gascon. 1833Macaulay in Friendship's Offering 1833 17 On that famed Picard field, Bohemia's plume, and Genoa's bow, and Caesar's eagle shield. 1954W. Faulkner Fable 60 One of those sweating stone courtyards which for a thousand years the French have been dotting about the Picard and Artois and Flanders countryside. 1972R. Cobb Reactions to French Revolution iii. 93 The apprentice is set upon by a group of big Picard servants. |