Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A cripple.
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- noun archaic One who
limps ; acripple .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Friar John, said Gymnast, no, by all the devils that are, no! So, said the monk, do I attest these same devils so long as they last, or rather, virtue (of) G —, what could that gouty limpard have done with so fine a dog?
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Friar John, said Gymnast, no, by all the devils that are, no! So, said the monk, do I attest these same devils so long as they last, or rather, virtue (of) G —, what could that gouty limpard have done with so fine a dog?
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Gymnast, no, by all the devils that are, no! So, said the monk, do I attest these same devils so long as they last, or rather, virtue (of) G--, what could that gouty limpard have done with so fine a dog?
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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They included the sparsely coifed ballard, the squinting, weak-eyed blincard (who could also be 'one who deliberately ignored reality'), the hobbling mendicant limpard or clochard (from French clocher, 'to limp'), the stammering mafflard, and the scallards and scabbards who suffered from some skin disease.
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