bard

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
bard1

▶noun

• 1 archaic or literary a poet, traditionally one reciting epics.

  ■ (the Bard) Shakespeare.

• 2 (Bard) the winner of a prize for Welsh verse at an Eisteddfod.

– derivatives
bardic adjective.

– origin ME: from Sc. Gaelic bàrd, Ir. bard, Welsh bardd, of Celtic origin.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
bard2

▶noun a rasher of fat bacon placed on meat or game before roasting. ▶verb cover with bards.

– origin C18: from Fr. barde, a transferred sense of barde ‘armour for the breast of a warhorse’.