What's the difference between boyar and boyard?

Boyar

Definition:

• (n.) Alt. of Boyard

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• (1) It is leaving it – without all hell breaking lose between rival boyars, and with his personal fortune intact.

Boyard

Definition:

• (n.) A member of a Russian aristocratic order abolished by Peter the Great. Also, one of a privileged class in Roumania.

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