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Bayard, horse, in chivalric romance

Bayard (bā`ərd), Ital. Baiardo (bäyär`dō), in chivalric romance, a bay horse, remarkable for his spirit and for his unique ability to fit his size to his rider. He appears in the 12th-century French epic Renaud de Montauban and in later tales of Roland Roland , the great French hero of the medieval Charlemagne cycle of chansons de geste, immortalized in the Chanson de Roland (11th or 12th cent.).
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Bayard
swiftest horse in the world. [Medieval and Renaissance Legend: Brewer Dictionary, 86]
See : Swiftness
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`We shall have a day of it to-day, Bayard, my beauty; but we'll do our duty as we have done.
Black Beauty by Sewell, Anna View in context
In twenty horses for saddle and draught, which I have particularly at my chateau of Pierrefonds, and which are called - Bayard, Roland, Charlemagne, Pepin, Dunois, La Hire, Ogier, Samson, Milo, Nimrod, Urganda, Armida, Flastrade, Dalilah, Rebecca, Yolande, Finette, Grisette, Lisette, and Musette.
The Man in the Iron Mask by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
Bayard Taylor, who could interpret the dim reasonings of animals, and understood their moral natures better than most men, would have found some way to make this poor old chap forget his troubles for a while, but we have not his kindly art, and so had to leave the raven to his griefs.
A Tramp Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
 
 
 
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