Bayard

Bayard
/bay"euhrd/, n.
1. a magical legendary horse in medieval chivalric romances.
2. a mock-heroic name for any horse.
3. (l.c.) Archaic. a bay horse.
[1275-1325; ME < MF; see BAY5, -ARD]
/bay"euhrd/; for 1 also Fr. /bann yannrdd"/, n.
1. Pierre Terrail /pyerdd te rddann"yeu/, Seigneur de /se nyuerdd" deuh/, ("the knight without fear and without reproach"), 1473-1524, heroic French soldier.
2. any man of heroic courage and unstained honor.
3. a male given name.

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