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Definition of Baselard
1. n. A short sword or dagger, worn in the fifteenth century.
Definition of Baselard
1. Noun. a type of heavy dagger popular in the 14th and 15th centuries. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Baselard
1. a dagger [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Baselard
Literary usage of Baselard
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Satirical Songs and Poems on Costume: From the 13th to the 19th Century by Frederick William Fairholt (1849)
"THE baselard was a knife, with an ornamental handle, and a decorated sheath, worn
in the centre of the girdle in the fourteenth century, and which continued ..."
2. Essays on Subjects Connected with the Literature, Popular Superstitions, and by Thomas Wright (1846)
"It describes the mischances to which a man was liable, who carried what was then
looked upon as an article of ostentation, a baselard (dagger), ..."
3. Early English Miscellanies: In Prose and Verse by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1855)
"My baselard ha^ta sylver schape ; Therfore I may bothe gaspe and gape ; Me thinkit
I go lyk non knape, For I bere a baselard. ..."
4. Songs and Carols from a Manuscript in the British Museum of the Fifteenth by Thomas Wright, British Library, British Museum (1856)
"... And a clone loket of led ; Me thinkit I may bere up myn hed, For I bere myn
baselard. ... Me thinkit I go lyk non knape, For I bere a baselard. ..."
5. Costume in England: A History of Dress to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Frederick William Fairholt, Harold Arthur Lee-Dillon Dillon (1885)
"Myn baselard hath a ... And a clene loket of led ; Me thinkit I may bere up myn
hed, For I bere myn baselard." And we are further informed it has a ..."
6. Animaduersions Vppon the Annotacions and Corrections of Some Imperfections by Francis Thynne, Frederick James Furnivall (1876)
"Wardrobe Account of Receipts and Expenses. Record Office, 39/4. Another entry
mentions ' baselard : ' — Ensis \ ( Ricardo Godchild ! pro vno ense, ..."
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