bardic

American  

[bahrd-ik] / ˈbɑrd ɪk /

adjective

1. of or relating to bards or their songwriting and singing.

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Example Sentences

She makes her living as a computer programmer, but as Alienor Salton, an 11th-century Welsh woman, she helps run the Bardic Circle, a weekly singing gathering in Central Park.

From New York Times • Dec. 23, 2018

Significantly, the better the song, the more joyful the Bardic paraphrase, as in this parody of the Beatles’ famous anthem:

From The New Yorker • Jun. 29, 2015

Whole websites are devoted to the staggering range and force of Bardic bad-mouthing.

From BBC • Oct. 26, 2013

And as a comic variant on a Bardic pile-up, recent weeks have welcomed “Much Ado About Nothing” twice over, their openings separated by merely five nights and the river Thames.

From New York Times • Jun. 7, 2011

Bardic recitation was by nature collective and unifying; the reading of books, by contrast, promoted independence, privacy, and the hoarding of knowledge by the privileged few.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro