Barded vs Farded - What's the difference?
barded | farded |
(of a horse) Accoutered with defensive armor
Wearing rich caparisons.
* Stow
(fard)
(archaic) Colour or paint, especially white paint, used on the face; makeup, war-paint.
* 1791 , John Whitaker, Rev. Gibbon’s Decline and Fall
(archaic) To paint, as the face or cheeks.
* Zachary Boyd
(archaic) To gloss over or embellish.
* 1606 , William Birnie, The blame of kirk-buriall
* 1816 , Sir Walter Scott, Tales of my Landlord
As an adjective barded
is (of a horse) accoutered with defensive armor.As a verb farded is
(fard).barded
English
Adjective
(-)- Fifteen hundred men barded and richly trapped.
Anagrams
*farded
English
Verb
(head)fard
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl), from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* ** faird * ** feardNoun
(-)- Painted with French fard .
Verb
(en verb)- The fairest are but farded like the face of Jezebel.
- Our funerals wherewith we but feard death.
- Nor will my conscience permit me to fard or daub over the causes of divine wrath.