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Baldric   Listen
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Baldric  n.  (Also spelled bawdrick and baldrick)  A broad belt, sometimes richly ornamented, worn over one shoulder, across the breast, and under the opposite arm; it is used to support a sword or bugle by the left hip; less properly, any belt. "A radiant baldric o'er his shoulder tied Sustained the sword that glittered at his side."






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"Baldric" Quotes from Famous Books



... grandeur and brought into unity by Charlemagne and his predecessors." Louis submitted to this decision; himself read out aloud, in the church of St. Medard at Soissons, but not quite unresistingly, a confession, in eight articles, of his faults, and, laying his baldric upon the altar, stripped off his royal robe, and received from the hands of Ebbo, archbishop of Rheims, the ...
— A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times - Volume I. of VI. • Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot



Words linked to "Baldric" :   belt, baldrick



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