Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A vagabond who lies upon straw; a lecher; a lewd person.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A born beggar; a vagabond.
- noun obsolete A lecher; a lewd person.
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- noun archaic a
beggar orvagrant , especially a professional one
Etymologies
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Examples
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_And couch till a palliard docked my dell_ = (literally) 'And lie quiet while a beggar deflowered my girl', but here probably = while a beggar fornicates with my mistress.
Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] John S. Farmer
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Next to the knight of Malta stood the whip-jack, habited in his sailor gear -- striped shirt and dirty canvas trousers; and adjoining him was the palliard, a loathsome tatterdemalion, his dress one heap of rags, and his discolored skin one mass of artificial leprosy and imposthumes.
Rookwood William Harrison Ainsworth 1843
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The limping palliard tore the bandages from his mock wounds, shouldered his crutch, and trudged hastily after them.
Rookwood William Harrison Ainsworth 1843
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He ran back a few yards to give himself an impetus, returned, and, placing his hands upon the shoulders of a stalwart vagabond near to him, threw a summerset upon the broad cap of a palliard, who was so jammed in the midst that he could not have stirred to avoid the shock; thence, without pausing, he vaulted forwards, and dropped lightly upon the ground in front of
Rookwood William Harrison Ainsworth 1843
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At the lunch where she met the Mauritius foreign minister, guests were offered a lavish menu of chicken palliard with roasted vegetables, Gruyere cheese on a bed of mixed greens, candied walnuts and crumbled soft cheese drizzled in raspberry vinaigrette.
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bilby commented on the word palliard
"Palliards - those whose fathers were clapperdogeons, or beggars born, and who themselves follow the same trade. The female sort beg with a number of children, borrowing them, if they have not a sufficient number of their own, and making them cry by pinching, in order to excite charity; the males make artificial sores on different parts of their bodies, to move compassion."
- Francis Grose, 'The Vulgar Tongue'.
September 18, 2008
swan commented on the word palliard
That's the name of one of my favorite bands!
www.palliardmusic.com
September 19, 2008