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isard

isard is the alternative spelling of izard.

Meaning of izard

Noun

izard (plural izards)

  1. A Pyrenean chamois (Rupicapra pyrenaica).
    • [T]hat threatening aspect with which they seemed to hang over the wandering traveller […] bid him to fear, lest even the light steps of the Izard (the Chamois of the Pyrenees), or the wild goats, who now and then appeared suspended amid the craggy fissures, should disunite them from the mountain...1791, Charlotte Smith, Celestina, Broadview, published 2004, page 474

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Forms of isard

pluralisards

Questions about isard

What is isard the alternative spelling of?
Isard is the alternative spelling of izard.

Words near isard in the dictionary

  1. isapostle
  2. isapostles
  3. isapostolic
  4. isapostolicity
  5. Isar
  6. isard
  7. isards
  8. isarithm
  9. isarithmic
  10. isarithms
  11. ISAs

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