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palliards

palliards is the plural of palliard.

Meaning of palliard

Noun

palliard (plural palliards)

  1. (archaic) A beggar or vagrant, especially a professional one; (earlier especially) a lecher.
    • A most luxurious and effeminate Palliard he was.1614, Walter Raleigh, Hist. World, II, page 476

Questions about palliards

What is palliards the plural of?
Palliards is the plural of palliard.

Words near palliards in the dictionary

  1. palliaments
  2. palliard
  3. palliardise
  4. palliardize
  5. palliardizing
  6. palliards
  7. palliasse
  8. palliasses
  9. palliate
  10. palliated
  11. palliates

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