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Definition of Baldric
1. Noun. A wide (ornamented) belt worn over the right shoulder to support a sword or bugle by the left hip.
Definition of Baldric
1. n. A broad belt, sometimes richly ornamented, worn over one shoulder, across the breast, and under the opposite arm; less properly, any belt.
Definition of Baldric
1. Noun. A belt used to hold a sword, sometimes richly ornamented, worn diagonally from shoulder to hip. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Baldric
1. a shoulder belt [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Baldric
Literary usage of Baldric
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"A shape with amice wrapped around, With a wrought Spanish baldric bound, 460 Like
pilgrim from beyond the sea; And knew — but how it mattered not — It was ..."
2. The Æneid of Virgil by Virgil (1910)
"... his baldric fair, Recaptured now with lavish sweat and pain. Now, from Tithonus'
saffron couch set free, Aurora over many a land outpoured The rising ..."
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