lyart
Scots
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French liart or Latin liardus.
Adjective
[edit]lyart
- (of a horse) having dappled white and grey spots
- 1853, Walter Watson, Poems and Songs: Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect:
- Yet, mony a reverend lyart pow, / Wha ne'er thocht muckle o' its jow, […]
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- 1867, George W. Donald, Poems, Ballads, and Songs:
- An' when his pow is lyart an' gray He'll bless the Brothock Burn.
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- 1896, Andrew Lang, A Monk of Fife:
- […] in the lap of a damsel that rode at her rein, on a lyart palfrey […]
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