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lyard
[ lahy-erd ]
adjective
Chiefly Scot.
- streaked or spotted with gray or white.
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of lyard1
1300–50; Middle English < Middle French, Old French liart
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Elizabeth Bennet had two spirits, viz., their names Suckyn, a hee like a blacke Dog: and Lyard, red lyke a Lyon or Hare.
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Favelle was the mediaeval name for a chestnut horse, as Bayard for a bay, and Lyard for a grey.
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“Dame avec l’oeil de beauté— “So, my good lad, softly! so, Lyard!
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Cicely and the maids, Richard told her, were well; but old Beaudesert always howled whenever he was asked for Madge; and Lyard would stand switching his tail in the meadow, and looking wistfully at the house for the young mistress whom he must never see again.
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