baldrick

plural baldricks

1. alternativeAlternative form of baldric.

   And from his blazoned baldrick slung, a mighty silver bugle hung...

   1800?, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Lady Of Shalott, part III, verse 2

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   And the bright green belt on his body he bore, oblique, like a baldrick, bound at his side below his left shoulder, laced in a knot...

   1400?, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, line 2485.

   That a woman conceiv'd me, I thank her; that she brought me up, I likewise give her most humble thanks; but that I will have a rechate winded in my forehead, or hang my bugle in an invisible baldrick, all women shall pardon me.

   1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], line 238

   The sword was carried in a belt of buff or other leather girded round the body, or thrown over the right shoulder, these shoulder belts were called baudricks.

   1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 33