English
Alternative spellings
Also bawdrick and baldric.
Noun
baldrick (plural: baldricks)
- (Clothing) A broad belt, sometimes richly ornamented, worn over one shoulder, across the breast, and under the opposite arm; less properly, any belt.
#:Quotations
#:*1400?: And the bright green belt on his body he bore, oblique, like a baldrick, bound at his side below his left shoulder, laced in a knot... — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, line 2485.
#:*1598: That a woman conceiv'd me, I thank her; that she brought me up, I likewise give her most humble thanks; but that I will have a rechate winded in my forehead, or hang my bugle in an invisible baldrick, all women shall pardon me. — William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act I, Scene I, line 238.
#:*1800?: And from his blazoned baldrick slung, a mighty bugle hung... — Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Lady Of Shalott, part III, verse 2
Alternative spellings
baldric
baudrick
:Quotations
:*1786: The sword was carried in a belt of buff or other leather girded round the body, or thrown over the right shoulder, these shoulder belts were called baudricks. — Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 33.
bawdrick
Translations
rfc-level|Translations at L3+
French: baudrier
Ido: baldrio
Category:Clothing
io:baldrick
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