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Definition of Goliard
1. Noun. A wandering scholar in medieval Europe; famed for intemperance and riotous behavior and the composition of satirical and ribald Latin songs.
Definition of Goliard
1. n. A buffoon in the Middle Ages, who attended rich men's tables to make sport for the guests by ribald stories and songs.
Definition of Goliard
1. Noun. A 12th/13th century wandering student, whose convivial lifestyle included minstrelsy and a typical satyric Latin poetry ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Goliard
1. a wandering student [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Goliard
Literary usage of Goliard
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"Same as goliard. Chaucer, Gen. Pro!, to С. Т., I. 500. ... [< goliard + -cry.}
A series of Latin poems written in the thirteenth century, satirizing the ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"goliard, a name applied lo those wandering students (vagantes) and clerks in
England, France and Germany, during the 12th and i3th centuries, ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The goliard poems are as truly *' medieval " as the monastic life which they ...
The word " goliard " itself outlived these turbulent bands which had given ..."
4. The Skeptics of the Italian Renaissance by John Owen (1893)
"Besides the burlesques, parodies and extravaganzas in which the goliard indulged
his favourite rollicking Rabelaisian humour, he also sang with tenderness ..."
5. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson (1872)
"The word is closely allied in form and meaning with the OE. goliard, a loose
companion, from Fr. goulard, goliard, a gully-gut, greedy feeder—Cot. ; bouffon ..."
6. The Gaelic Etymology of the Languages of Western Europe and More Especially by Charles Mackay (1877)
"The word is closely allied in forin and meaning with the Old English goliard, a
loose companion ; from French goulard, goliard, a gully-gut, a greedy feeder ..."
7. A History of German Literature by Wilhelm Scherer (1886)
"The ' Vagrant,' the ' Golias,' or ' goliard,' amused the Bishop and Abbot, not
the noble. ... The goliard had a strong love of life and all its pleasures, ..."
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