belgard

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noun

A loving look, an amorous glance.

OriginItalian bel guardo →
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Meanings

nounbelgard (plural belgards)

plural belgards

  1. obsoleteA loving look, an amorous glance.

    Vpon her eyelids many Graces sate, / Vnder the shadow of her euen browes, / Working belgards, and amorous retrate […]

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin

  1. Italianbel guardo
  2. Englishbelgard

From Italian bel guardo.

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