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Definition of Baldrick
1. Noun. A wide (ornamented) belt worn over the right shoulder to support a sword or bugle by the left hip.
Definition of Baldrick
1. Proper noun. The name of multiple fictional characters who are servants of Edmund Blackadder and foils to the lead character in the British television comedy series ''Blackadder''. ¹
2. Noun. A broad belt, sometimes richly ornamented, worn over one shoulder, across the breast, and under the opposite arm; less properly, any belt. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Baldrick
1. baldric [n -S] - See also: baldric
Lexicographical Neighbors of Baldrick
Literary usage of Baldrick
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England, from by John Campbell Campbell (1847)
"Athwart his breast a baldrick brave he wore That shined like twinkling stars with
stones most precious rare. ... A radiant baldrick o'er his shoulders tied ..."
2. The Lives of the Lords Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England by Baron John Campbell Campbell (1851)
"... charter granted at this time by the Conqueror to the monks of St. Florentius of
Andover is witnessed and authenticated by baldrick as Ring's Chancellor, ..."
3. Churchwardens' Accounts of St. Mary the Great, Cambridge, from 1504 to 1635 by J. Foster (1905)
"baldrick Baldwin, Balden ... baldrick Banes, John, carpenter, 1594, 263, 254
Bank's man, 1557, 139 Banners in church, 1556, 133 ; cloth to make, 1556, ..."
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