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Definition of Pierre Terrail
1. Noun. French soldier said to be fearless and chivalrous (1473-1524).
Generic synonyms: Soldier
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pierre Terrail
Literary usage of Pierre Terrail
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1829)
"Among the most noble of the chevaliers with whom the history of knighthood has
made us acquainted, is the celebrated Pierre Terrail de Bayart, ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"BAYARD, Pierre Terrail. SEIGNEUR DE (1473-1524), French soldier, the descendant
of a noble family, nearly every head of which for two centuries past had ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1901)
"Pierre Terrail (not Du Terrail), Seigneur de Bayart, fell, mortally wounded by
a stone from an arquebus, on the retreat from Italy in 1524. ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"Pierre Terrail, SEIGNEUR DE (1473-1524), French soldier, the descendant of a
noble family, nearly every head of-which for two centuries past had fallen in ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"BAYARD, ba-yar, Pierre Terrail (CHEVALIER DE), French soldier: b. Chateau Bayard,
near Grenoble, about 1475; d. 30 April 1524. He was descended from one of ..."
6. The History of Chivalry; Or, Knighthood and Its Times by Charles Mills (1844)
"Pierre Terrail, or Du Terrail, known under the name of Bayard, was born in the
year 1476, at the chateau of Bayard, in Dauphiny. * Mémoires d'Olivier de la ..."
7. A Dictionary of the Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature of Great Britain by Samuel Halkett, John Laing (1885)
"... of the Chevalier Bayard [Pierre Terrail, or du Terrail], the good knight
without fear and without reproach. By the loyal servant. ..."
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