lyard

Also ly·art

[lahy-erd]

adjective

Chiefly Scot.

1. streaked or spotted with gray or white.

Word History and Origins

Origin of lyard¹

1300–50; Middle English < Middle French, Old French liart

Example Sentences

Elizabeth Bennet had two spirits, viz., their names Suckyn, a hee like a blacke Dog: and Lyard, red lyke a Lyon or Hare.

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Favelle was the mediaeval name for a chestnut horse, as Bayard for a bay, and Lyard for a grey.

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“Dame avec l’oeil de beauté— “So, my good lad, softly! so, Lyard!

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Cicely and the maids, Richard told her, were well; but old Beaudesert always howled whenever he was asked for Madge; and Lyard would stand switching his tail in the meadow, and looking wistfully at the house for the young mistress whom he must never see again.

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