baldric

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A broad belt, originally of leather and often richly ornamented, worn diagonally from shoulder to hip (across the breast and under the opposite arm), which was formerly used to hold a sword, a bugle, etc., and is now chiefly worn for ceremonial purposes; also (loosely), any belt.

   “But now how many men are there proude of that that is not theyrs at al? Is there no man proude of keping another mannes gate? […] [W]hat a brag-kyng maketh a beareward wͭ [with] his ſyluer buttened bawdrike, for pride of another mannes bere?”

2. isim A (usually leather) strap from which the clapper of a bell is suspended.

   “[P]aid to the Collermaker of Leawsam for a bawdricke for the great bell … … … iijs.”

3. isim A necklace.

   “Baldrike for a ladyes necke carcan s[ubstantive] ma[le]”

4. isim The zodiac (“belt-like region of the celestial sphere, approximately eight degrees north and south of the ecliptic, which includes the apparent path of the sun, moon, and visible planets”).

   “[S]he [Astraea] hath novv an euerlaſting place, / Mongſt thoſe tvvelue ſignes, vvhich nightly vve doe ſee / The heauens bright-ſhining baudricke to enchace; […]”