(a.) Properly, a bay horse, but often any horse. Commonly in the phrase blind bayard, an old blind horse.
(a.) A stupid, clownish fellow.
Example Sentences:
(1) Dense crowds of spectators lined the route taken by the procession, which was witnessed from the Grand Stand at the Fifth Avenue Hotel by President Cleveland; Mr. Bayard, Secretary of State; Mr. Whitney, Secretary of the Navy; Mr. Vilas, Postmaster General; Mr. Lamar, Secretary of the Interior; General Sheridan, Commander in Chief of the United States army; M. Bartholdi, M. de Lesseps, Admiral Juarez, and the other French guests, as well as by other distinguished persons.
(2) "You know, Bayard," Martin Luther King told Rustin after the 1965 Watts rebellion in Los Angeles.
(3) Using the draize method to compare with three kinds of granding (method of bayard and hehir, of EPA and of NRC), the results were essentially the same.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bayard Rustin reads the demands of the March on Washington The court’s ruling is hopeful, but it’s also a cautionary tale that LGBT liberation (or any liberation) cannot be achieved through any one path.
(5) The Civil Rights Act – won just a year after the openly gay organiser of the March on Washington, Bayard Rustin , read its demands aloud for “ comprehensive and effective civil rights legislation from the present Congress ” – is bearing fruit some five decades later, in unexpected ways.
(6) French publishers such as Bayard Jeunesse Canada and Flammarion Québec straddle the great divide, represented in both France and Quebec, along similar lines to ventures by publishers marketing books in English or Spanish.
(7) "Birmingham became the moment of truth," argued Bayard Rustin , who organised the March on Washington.
(8) Either technique allowed separation of the two heterosaccharide chains (designated glycan I and glycan II) previously described for this protein by Spik, Vandersyppe, Fournet, Bayard, Charet, Bouquelet, Strecker & Montreuil (1974) (in Actes du Colloque Internationale No.
(9) "And since Pierre Bayard is right, we know there are books we have yet to read that will help us reflect on cultures different from our own.
(10) Murray years ago settled on a quote from a thinker he had not heard of, the American journalist Herbert Bayard Swope, as his guiding philosophy: "I cannot give you the formula for success but I can give you the formula for failure – which is: try to please everybody."
(11) A few hours after King went to sleep, the march's organiser, Bayard Rustin, wandered on to the Washington Mall, where the demonstration would take place later that day, with some of his assistants, to find security personnel and journalists outnumbering demonstrators.
(12) As early asIn 1965, the civil rights leader Bayard Rustin pointed out : "The Negro today finds himself stymied by obstacles of far greater magnitude than the legal barriers he was attacking before – automation, urban decay, de facto school segregation.
(13) Even the main African-American organizers – notably the gay socialist Bayard Rustin , A Philip Randolph of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and King himself – dreaded the possibility that such a concentration of angry blacks and civil rights workers might end in a riot.
Boyard
Definition:
(n.) A member of a Russian aristocratic order abolished by Peter the Great. Also, one of a privileged class in Roumania.