Lexicographical Neighbors of Baselards
Literary usage of Baselards
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Vision of William Concerning Piers the Plowman: In Three Parallel Texts by William Langland (1886)
"... much surprised unless many priests were to carry a set of beads in their hand
and a book under their arm, instead of their baselards and their brooches. ..."
2. English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature by Henry Morley, William Hall Griffin (1889)
"For all that beareth baselards,* bright sword, or lance, Axe or hatchet, ...
And set my saddle upon Suffer-till-I-see-my-time ; * baselards were long ..."
3. Early English Text Society by Early English Text Society (1877)
"... much surprised unless many priests were to carry a set of beads in their hand
and a book under their arm, instead of their baselards and their brooches. ..."
4. A portraiture of Quakerism: Taken from a View of the Moral Education by Thomas Clarkson (1807)
"... out of doors with broad bucklers and long swords, or with baldrics about their
necks, instead of stoles, to which their baselards were attached; ..."
5. A Portraiture of Quakerism: Taken from a View of the Moral Education by Thomas Clarkson (1808)
"... of doors with broad bucklers and long swords, or with baldrics about their
necks, instead of stoles, to which their baselards were attached : " Bucklers ..."
6. Costume in England: A History of Dress from the Earliest Period Till the by Frederick William Fairholt (1846)
"Contrasting them with the saints, he says, " some of them, instead of baselards (the
ornamental daggers worn by gentlemen at their girdles) and brooches, ..."
7. Heraldic Anomalies: Or Rank Confusion in Our Orders of Precedence. With by Edward Nares (1823)
"... as appearing abroad with broad bucklers and long swords, with baldrics about
their necks, instead of stoles, to which their baselards were attached ..."
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