bard

IPA: bˈɑrd

A professional poet and singer, like among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men.
(by extension) A poet.
A piece of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a horse's neck, breast, and flanks; a barb. (Often in the plural.)
Defensive armor formerly worn by a man at arms.
(cooking) A thin slice of fat bacon used to cover any meat or game.
The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree; the rind.
Specifically, Peruvian bark.
A surname originating as an occupation.
(usually with "the") William Shakespeare.
Abbreviation of [proof] beyond a reasonable doubt.

Examples of "bard" in Sentences

KING: And what do know of the man known as the bard?
The night of the bard was the night that the blackmail began.
[144] Here the bard is a little obscure; but he seems to mean that the
To bend a phrase from that word-coining bard, "critics, you doth protest too much."
In modern Welsh, a bard is a poet whose vocation has been recognized at an Eisteddfod.
Captain Wilford observes, [266] that there may be a clue to the Celtic word bard in the
The moment we all sat down to table, she informed us, to Morgan's great delight, that the bard was a rank impostor.
The bard was a storyteller-singer who according to Keyes, chronicles history and transmits cultural traditions through performance.
The reason which induced me to do so was the knowledge of an appalling tragedy transacted there in the old time, in which there is every reason to suppose a certain Welsh bard, called Lewis
In consequence, perhaps, of Lucan's having spoken of _carmina bardi_, the word bard began to be used, early in the 17th century, to designate any kind of a serious poet, whether lyric or epic, and is so employed by