Basilard vs Baselard - What's the difference?
basilard | baselard | Alternative forms |
a type of heavy dagger popular in the 14th and 15th centuries.
* 1380s : "Sir John and Sir Geoffrey hath a girdle of silver, a baselard or a ballok knyf with buttons overgilt." (Piers Plowman )
* 1519 : "a hoked Baslarde is a perelse wepon with the Turkes." (Horman's Vulgaria )
Basilard is an alternative form of baselard.
As a noun baselard is
a type of heavy dagger popular in the 14th and 15th centuries.basilard
Not English
Basilard has no English definition. It may be misspelled.baselard
English
(wikipedia baselard)Alternative forms
* basilard, baslardNoun
(en noun)References
*Du Cange, et al., Glossarium mediæ et infimæ latinitatis. Niort : L. Favre, 1883-1887.