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Gorsedd

/ ˈɡɔːsɛð /

noun

  1. (in Wales) the bardic institution associated with the eisteddfod, esp a meeting of bards and druids held daily before the eisteddfod
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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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.

In Cathays Park there is also a “gorsedd” or bardic circle of huge monoliths erected in connexion with the eisteddfod of 1899.

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.

First we went to the Gorsedd, or preliminary congress for conferring the degree of bard.

Its chairing of the bards is an ancient ceremony; its gorsedd of bards is probably modern.

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