*Word of the Day for Sunday, November 13, 2011
lyard \LAHY-erd\, adjective:
Streaked or spotted with gray or white.
Referring again to the color of medieval horses, white or grey, which was called “lyard”—were the favourite colors...
-- Walter Clifford Meller, A Knight's Life in Days of Chivalry
The best color for a stallion, is brown bay dappled, dapple gray, bright bay, or white lyard.
-- Gervase Markham, Cavelarice
Lyard is from the Old French liart. However its meaning before that is unknown.
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