BAYARD

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• BAYARD (noun)
  The noun BAYARD has 1 sense:

1. French soldier said to be fearless and chivalrous (1473-1524)

  Familiarity information: BAYARD used as a noun is very rare.

• BAYARD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

French soldier said to be fearless and chivalrous (1473-1524)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Bayard; Chevalier de Bayard; Pierre de Terrail; Pierre Terrail; Seigneur de Bayard

Instance hypernyms:

soldier (an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army)

 Context examples 

You’ve two horses in for the Wessex Cup—Silver Blaze and Bayard.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Alleyne was still gazing after them, listening to the loud Hyke-a-Bayard! Hyke-a-Pomers! Hyke-a-Lebryt! with which they called upon their favorite hounds, when a group of horsemen crashed out through the underwood at the very spot where the serf and he were standing.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Is it a fact that at the weights Bayard could give the other a hundred yards in five furlongs, and that the stable have put their money on him?

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)