BECARD Definition & Meaning

becard

[ bek-erd, buh-kahrd ]

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noun

any of several passerine birds of the genus Pachyramphus, of the American tropics, having large heads and swollen bills, and variously classified with the flycatchers or the cotingas.

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of becard¹

< French bécard, beccard a merganser with a prominent beak, equivalent to bec beak + -ard -ard

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“I think it’s all going in the right direction. It’s all positive and clever,” said Francis Becard, 57, head of the School of Business and Management in Troyes, east of Paris.

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Some believe that while Mr Strauss-Kahn's conduct may have been distasteful, the investigation's case was simply "poorly put together", as Bruno Becard puts it in La Nouvelle Republique du Centre Ouest.

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A revision of the rose-throated becard.

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"What has Becard in the Salon?"

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Except, that is, for the rose-throated becard, an elusive bird known to nest farther upriver near Roma, which is where I was headed the next morning.

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