Layard

[ laird, ley-erd ]

/ lɛərd, ˈleɪ ərd /

noun

Sir Aus·ten Henry

[aw-stuh n] /ˈɔ stən/, 1817–94, English archaeologist, writer, and diplomat.

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Examples from the Web for layard

Mr. Layard impressed me as more taken up with concerns of Nineveh and Wardour Street than of la haute politique.
Romantic Spain|John Augustus O'Shea
One volume that he read from cover to cover before he was eight years old was Layard's "Nineveh."
Bert Lloyd's Boyhood|J. McDonald Oxley
Judging from his name, "twists and needles," he or his father was probably a pedlar (Layard's edition of "Kugler," i. 334).
A Popular Handbook to the National Gallery, Volume I, Foreign Schools|Various
This mode of crossing rivers, we learn from Dr. Layard, is still practised in Armenia both by men and women.
The First Four Books of Xenophon's Anabasis|Xenophon

Layard, “Discoveries in the ruins of Nineveh and Babylon,” p. 191.
The Preservation of Antiquities|Friedrich Rathgen

British Dictionary definitions for layard

Layard

/ (lɛəd) /

noun

Sir Austen Henry. 1817–94, English archaeologist, noted for his excavations at Nimrud and Nineveh

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