bardic
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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A second work shows them coming together to sing Welsh Gorsedd bardic prayers, written in the 18th Century as a reimagining of a Welsh culture lost to colonialism.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2021
“She’s a brilliant writer about social mores, but she believes that her gift is a kind of bardic one, where she can access the truth of—particularly—female emotion.”
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 7, 2019
I think of him in the lineage of bardic recitation and plainsong.
From Slate ● Aug. 12, 2016
Certainly the married Stevens led a largely stolid, suburban existence, especially when contrasted with the bardic exuberance of, say, Dylan Thomas.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2016
“Whatever else it may have, it bears the bardic symbol—those three lines there, like a sort of arrowhead.”
From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander
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