Obs. Also 5 viellars (pl.), veyllard, 6 villard, vylarde. [a. F. vieillard (OF. also viellard, -art, villard, etc.), f. vieil old: see -ARD.] An old man.
1475. Bk. Noblesse (Roxb.), 64. That noble duke Agamemnon required of the goddis six suche wise viellars as was Nestor.
1485. Caxton, Chas. Gt., 117. Of whens art thou, veyllard?
a. 1500[?]. Chester Pl., I. 156. That oulde vylarde Jacobe, doted for age.
c. 1590. J. Stewart, Poems (S.T.S.), II. 38. This vitius vieillard now mycht tak Of hir his plesour.
1621. T. Williamson (title), The Wise Vieillard or Old Man. Translated out of French into English.
