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picards

picards is the plural of picard.

Meaning of picard

Noun

picard (plural picards)

  1. (historical) A type of light, seaworthy vessel used in trade and the transport of fish in Britain and Ireland in the late medieval and early modern period.
    • Others, used commonly as fishing boats and in trade with Ireland, were “picards”, named often in the Tolsey Court books as pledges for debts, and worth about £8.1933, E. M. Carus Wilson, “The Overseas Trade of Bristol”, in Eileen Power, M. M. Postan, editors, Studies in English Trade in the 15th Century, page 239

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Noun capitalized: Picards

Picards

  1. (plural) plural of Picard

Questions about picards

What is picards the plural of?
Picards is the plural of picard.
What part of speech is picards?
Picards is a noun.

Words near picards in the dictionary

  1. Picardi
  2. Picardian
  3. Picardians
  4. Picardis
  5. Picardo
  6. picards
  7. Picardy
  8. Picardy Spaniel
  9. Picardy Spaniels
  10. Picardy sweat
  11. Picardy sweating sickness

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