ppl. a. [f. BARD v. + -ED.] Armed, caparisoned or covered with bards.

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1501.  Douglas, Pal. Hon., I. xlvii. A bardit curser stout and bald.

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1535.  Coverdale, Joel ii. 4. They are to loke vpon like bayrded horses.

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1596.  Danett, Comines’ Hist. Fr. (1614), 298. Two thousand men of armes barded.

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1795.  Southey, Joan of Arc, VI. 300. A man-at-arms upon a barded steed.

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1880.  Disraeli, Endym., lix. 267. The bells of a barded mule announced the Jester.

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  ¶ By confusion or misprint for BARBED.

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1598.  Sylvester, Du Bartas, I. v. 41/3. If the Scolopendra have suckt-in The Sowr-sweet morsell with the barded Pin.

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