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bourds

bourds is the plural of bourd.

Meaning of bourd

Noun

bourd (plural bourds)

  1. (obsolete) A joke; jesting, banter.
    • The wisard could no lenger beare her bord,
      But brusting forth in laughter, to her sayd;
      Glauce, what needs this colourable word […] ?1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.iii

Questions about bourds

What is bourds the plural of?
Bourds is the plural of bourd.

Words near bourds in the dictionary

  1. Bourdin
  2. bourding
  3. bourdon
  4. bourdonnée
  5. bourdons
  6. bourds
  7. bourek
  8. bourekas
  9. bourette
  10. Bourey
  11. bourg

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