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proper noun
- a fictional character from the British television comedy series w:Blackadder, Blackadder
Etymology: From baldric
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noun (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 slung, a mighty bugle hung... — Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Lady Of Shalott, part III, verse 2
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