Bayard

¹ American  

[bey-erd, ba-yar] / ˈbeɪ ərd, baˈyar /

noun

1. Pierre Terrail Seigneur de the knight without fear and without reproach, 1473–1524, heroic French soldier.

2. any man of heroic courage and unstained honor.

3. a first name.

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Bayard ² American  

[bey-erd] / ˈbeɪ ərd /

noun

1. a magical legendary horse in medieval chivalric romances.

2. a mock-heroic name for any horse.

3. (lowercase) a bay horse.

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Bayard ¹ British  

/ ˈbeɪəd /

noun

1. a legendary horse that figures prominently in medieval romance

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Bayard ² British  

/ ˈbeɪəd, bajar /

noun

1. Chevalier de (ʃəvalje də), original name Pierre de Terrail ?1473–1524, French soldier, known as le chevalier sans peur et sans reproche (the fearless and irreproachable knight)

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Etymology

Origin of Bayard

1275–1325; Middle English < Middle French; see bay ⁵, -ard

Example Sentences

In 1963, his vision of a mass march on Washington, D.C., was realized with the assistance of Bayard Rustin.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 23, 2025

Bayard Rustin spent six months studying nonviolence in the country.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 15, 2024

When Walter Naegle was first approached over a decade ago by producers who wanted to make a feature about his late partner, the civil rights leader Bayard Rustin, Naegle needed to be talked into it.

From New York Times • Mar. 6, 2024

Bayard and biologists with the Department of Fish and Wildlife recommended that any turbines in the area should not sit within 2 miles of any ferruginous hawk nests.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 21, 2024

So in 1847, the Stantons moved to Seneca Falls, a small mill town in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, where Elizabeth’s sister Tryphena and brother-in-law Edward Bayard lived.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling