bardedadj.
/ˈbɑːdɪd/ Armed, caparisoned, or covered with bards.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > armour for horse > [adjective]
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > [adjective] > clad in or protected by armour > clad in plate-armour
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [adjective] > covered with other cloths
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1535 Bible (Coverdale) Joel ii. 4 They are to loke vpon like bayrded horses.
?1553 (c1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (London) i. l. 551 in Shorter Poems (1967) 40 A bardyt [1579 Edinb. bardit] cursere stout and bald.
1596 T. Danett tr. P. de Commynes Hist. viii. v. 326 Two thousand men of armes barded.
1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc vi. 300 A man-at-arms upon a barded steed.
1880 B. Disraeli Endymion II. xxiii. 236 The bells of a barded mule announced the Jester.
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