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baselards

baselards is the plural of baselard.

Meaning of baselard

Noun

baselard (plural baselards)

  1. A type of heavy dagger popular in the 14th and 15th centuries.
    • 1380s: "Sir John and Sir Geoffrey hath a girdle of silver, a baselard or a ballok knyf with buttons overgilt." (Piers Plowman)

Questions about baselards

What is baselards the plural of?
Baselards is the plural of baselard.

Words near baselards in the dictionary

  1. Basel-City
  2. Basel-Country
  3. Basel-Landschaft
  4. Basel-Stadt
  5. baselard
  6. baselards
  7. baselayer
  8. baselayers
  9. baseless
  10. baselessly
  11. baselessness

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