Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete variant of
leopard .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Obs. or Poetic A leopard.
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Examples
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He still in woods pursued the libbard and the boar.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
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Du Serres [9] mentions him, & Chapelain [10] kills him at the falling in of the bridge, an incident of which he has made little use, tho so very fine in itself. does there appear to you too much attempt at artifice in suppressing the name of Theodore till his death? the pen of expurgation has passed thro the long speech of stupidity P. 147 – 148. will you like leopard or libbard?
Letter 249 1797
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He ilill in woods purfaed the libbard and the boar.
The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790
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8 (A lesson hard) and make the libbard stern libbard > leopard stern > fierce
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser
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