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Definition of Palliards
1. palliard [n] - See also: palliard
Lexicographical Neighbors of Palliards
Literary usage of Palliards
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"These palliards be called also Clapper- dogen?, these go with patched ... Crew,
sv palliards, c. the ..."
2. The Poetical Works of John Dryden by John Dryden (1909)
"Thieves, panders, palliards, sins of ev'ry sort; Those are the manufactures we
export; And these the missioners our zeal has'I made: I For, ..."
3. The Literature of Roguery by Frank Wadleigh Chandler (1907)
"... are short-cloaked rogues; palliards raise blisters on their legs; ...
are palliards with genuine sores; ..."
4. English Farming Past & Present by Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1917)
"... with a piece of white soap in his mouth which made him foam like a boar: the "
palliards," with their patched cloaks, and self- inflicted sores or ..."
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