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Gorsedd
/ ˈɡɔːsɛð /
noun
- (in Wales) the bardic institution associated with the eisteddfod, esp a meeting of bards and druids held daily before the eisteddfod
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Gorsedd1
from Welsh, literally: throne
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Example Sentences
With the ceremony of the Gorsedd on the opening day Dafydd Dafis's spellbound and uplifted hours began.
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In Cathays Park there is also a “gorsedd” or bardic circle of huge monoliths erected in connexion with the eisteddfod of 1899.
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The Gorsedd was held in the open air, at the windy corner of a street, and the morning was not favourable to open-air solemnities.
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First we went to the Gorsedd, or preliminary congress for conferring the degree of bard.
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Its chairing of the bards is an ancient ceremony; its gorsedd of bards is probably modern.
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