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mazard

American

[maz-erd] / ˈmæz ərd /

noun

Archaic.
1. head.
2. face.
Obsolete. a mazer.

mazard British

/ ˈmæzəd /

noun

an obsolete word for the head skull
another word for mazer

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Etymology

Origin of mazard

First recorded in 1595–1605; maz(er) + -ard

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Frank Hague's corrupt Jersey gang took a crushing blow in the mazard; the wreckage of Tammany Hall is strewn over Manhattan.

From Time Magazine Archive

But, bless you, he was glum about the mazard, he was.”

From My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life by Talbot Baines Reed

Why, e'en so: and now my Lady Worm's; chapless, and knocked about the mazard with a sexton's spade: here's fine revolution, an we had the trick to see't.

From Hamlet by William Shakespeare

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