Guiscard

[ French gees-kar ]

/ French gisˈkar /

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noun

Ro·bert

[French raw-ber], /French rɔˈbɛr/, Robert de Hauteville, c1015–85, Norman conqueror in Italy.

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How to use Guiscard in a sentence

Within a hundred yards I met my two friends, Varnhorst and Guiscard, and poured out my whole catalogue of wrongs at once.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
Guiscard neither raged nor smiled, but walked into the ducal tent.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
Guiscard, who sometimes joined our party, was now and then moved to smile at our unripe conceptions of the nature of things.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
My surprise and pleasure were equal when I found him to be Guiscard!
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844|Various

He had made legitimate the claims already established by conquest of Robert Guiscard and others of the Norman conquerors.
The Makers of Modern Rome|Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

British Dictionary definitions for Guiscard

Guiscard

/ (French ɡiskar) /

noun

Robert (rɔbɛr). ?1015–85, Norman conqueror in S Italy

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