musard

plural musards

1. literaryA dreamer; an absent-minded person.

   Earth's sons arise, inhabit, and return, Like fleeting forms before a musard's eyes; Yet, as some Phœnix out a funeral urn, See! from their lives, new lives in youth arise.

   1883, Charles D. Morley, Aglaia Unveiled: a Poetical Romaunt; and Miscellaneous Verses, page 6

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   How do the sciences go on in the midst of our political convulsions, and our financial distress? and the men of leaning, and the great talkers, and the collections, and the courses of lectures, and La Blancherie, and the museums, and the musards ( loungers?)

   1796, An Appeal to impartial posterity, An Appeal to impartial posterity, page 217

   For while alluring fortune beckons me Along, I'll follow it, ev'n to the verge Of death—ay, hell, if but a musard hope Should taste success, and my ambition dower Me with a specious immortality.

   1881, Edward St. John-Brenon, The Tribune Reflects: And Other Poems, page 48

   He belittled his fellow citizens, as was his habit, by remarking that Monsieur Musard was a bagatelle to amuse all the other musards of Paris, who had no important use for their time.

   1944, Ernest Hall Templin, The Social Approach to Literature - Volume 28, page 407