musard
musard noun: a dreamer; an absent-minded person.
Noun
musard (plural musards)
- A dreamer; an absent-minded person.
- How do the sciences go on in the midst of our political convulsions, and our financial distress? and the men of leaning, and the great talkers, and the collections, and the courses of lectures, and La Blancherie, and the museums, and the musards ( loungers?)1796, An Appeal to impartial posterity, An Appeal to impartial posterity, page 217
- For while alluring fortune beckons me
Along, I'll follow it, ev'n to the verge
Of death—ay, hell, if but a musard hope
Should taste success, and my ambition dower
Me with a specious immortality.1881, Edward St. John-Brenon, The Tribune Reflects: And Other Poems, page 48
Examples of musard in a sentence
- Earth's sons arise, inhabit, and return, Like fleeting forms before a musard's eyes; Yet, as some Phœnix out a funeral urn, See! from their lives, new lives in youth arise.1883, Charles D. Morley, Aglaia Unveiled: a Poetical Romaunt; and Miscellaneous Verses, page 6:
- He belittled his fellow citizens, as was his habit, by remarking that Monsieur Musard was a bagatelle to amuse all the other musards of Paris, who had no important use for their time.1944, Ernest Hall Templin, The Social Approach to Literature - Volume 28, page 407:
Forms of musard
| plural | musards |
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Origin of musard
Borrowed from Middle English musard, from Middle French musard, from muser (“to loiter, trifle”). See muse (intransitive verb).
Questions about musard
- What does musard mean?
- Musard means a dreamer; an absent-minded person.
- How do you use musard in a sentence?
- Earth's sons arise, inhabit, and return, Like fleeting forms before a musard's eyes; Yet, as some Phœnix out a funeral urn, See! from their lives, new lives in youth arise.
- What part of speech is musard?
- Musard is a noun.
- What is the plural of musard?
- The plural of musard is musards.
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