sard
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of sard
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin sarda < Greek sárdios sardius
Example Sentences
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Coast Guard: shore-patrol horses are sprayed with Skat to repel sard flies.
From Time Magazine Archive
She sard she did not believe in class consciousness and knew enough of human nature to know that there was greed, jealousy, immorality and selfishness among all.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Hebrew odem was probably a red stone, either carnelian, sard or jasper.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various
I made Most fair for thee this lustrous blood-red sard, And deftly traced its gleaming surface hard With carvings thick of bright acacias slim, Pomegranates lush and river-reeds.
From Lilith The Legend of the First Woman by Ada Langworthy Collier
He had turned the deeply-engraved sard with his brown thumb and clenched his fist upon it, but as swiftly changed his mind, and took off the ring and handed it to her.
From The Dop Doctor by Richard Dehan
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