barded

English

From bard +‎ -ed. See bard (“horse armour”).

barded (not comparable)

(of a horse) Accoutered with defensive armor
- c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], lines 9-13:
  Grim-visag'd war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front;
  And now, instead of mounting barded steeds
  To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,
  He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber
  To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.
Wearing rich caparisons.
- 1841, William Reader, The Ruins of Kenilworth, an Historical Poem:
  Fifteen hundred men […] barded and richly trapped.