bard

I once had a news director who, in the midst of marital issues, carried a guitar from cubicle to cubicle like the world’s saddest bard.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

They beat themselves up over both of those performances - "jobby" was midfielder John McGinn's description and no bard could have come up with a better description.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

You could play as a hero, a villain, a bard, a craftsman and more.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026

Before Joseph Wambaugh came along, the unofficial bard of the Los Angeles Police Department was Jack Webb, whose unsmiling Sgt.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2025

“Birds again,” murmured the bard with a shudder.

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander

This renders Mr. Bacon’s subtitle inapt: “The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald” has been told and retold by authors and bards.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2025

The exploits of Sundiata Keita, a near-mythical figure in the Mande oral tradition, have been passed down by generations of bards.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

In the same way we accept that bar fights get more dangerous if someone decides to punch up Motörhead’s “Ace of Spades” on a jukebox, bards can cast spells in Dungeons & Dragons.

From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2023

An underground resistance movement swells into a mass uprising, spurred on by wizard-like bards and a single, cryptic line of graffiti: “Upwake!”

From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2023

“Your names are not unknown among the bards of the north.”

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander

You’ll note that they’re using both normal cassowaries as well as a twin-mounted fully barded champron-equipped Maximum cassowary with criniere and boiled leather peytral.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 1, 2014

He rode a coal-black horse barded all in white, with the pure white shield of the Kingsguard strapped to his arm.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

The horse was barded in bronze- colored trappings dyed to match the rider's cloak and emblazoned with the burning tree.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

His steel was a deep cobalt, even the blunt momingstar he wielded with such deadly effect, his mount barded in the quartered sun-and-moon heraldry of House Tarth.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

On the appointed morning, “Hereford came forth armed at all points, mounted on a white courser, barded with blue and green velvet, gorgeously embroidered with swans and antelopes of goldsmiths’ work. 

From Rides on Railways by Samuel Sidney