Talk:Bayard of ten toes

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ride Bayard of ten toes

This is only found in old dictionaries. --Jackofclubs 17:50, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

If it is in dictionaries, it should pass. Mark as dated perhaps.--Dmol 08:45, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

No, it shouldn't. Dictionary mentions do not count as use. -- Visviva 09:16, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

But this page if for verification, which has already been done by virtue of the dictionaries. If it is dated or obsolete then it will not have any uses showing up.--Dmol 09:21, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Dictionaries do nothing to verify that a word meets CFI, which is the purpose of this page as I have always understood it. Thanks to the magic of b.g.c., those dated and obsolete words that have been used in print are fairly easy to cite. Even extremely obscure coinages like ruricolist have been satisfactorily verified in this way. -- Visviva 09:29, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

• Bayard of ten toes ("feet") is readily verifiable. I wonder if this could simply be redirected? -- Visviva 09:29, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Moved, with redirect, to [[Bayard of ten toes]]. I've changed {{rfv}} to {{rfquote}}, but if anyone wishes to RFV it, please do. —Ruakh_TALK 00:44, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

I’ve added a lovely quotation from circa 1616. † ﴾^(u):Raifʻhār ^(t):Doremítzwr﴿ 01:24, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

This is cool, but even with the quotation it's impossible to tell whether this is used as a noun, verb, proper name, or adjective. (And still, we do need two more quotations to confirm that this is not just a nonce or a poetic metaphor.) —Michael Z. 2009-05-30 01:37 z

Proper noun, I think, since it seems to be a phrase postmodifying the name of the horse Bayard which, as our etymology section therefor states, “was a horse famous in old romances”; it’s like talking about Saint Hildegard, and then adding “of Bingen” — it’s still a proper noun. † ﴾^(u):Raifʻhār ^(t):Doremítzwr﴿ 01:44, 30 May 2009 (UTC)