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† ˈbourder Obs.
Forms: 4 burdoure, bourdeoure, bordiour, 4–9 bourdour, 5 bordere, -youre, bowrder, 6 bourder, Sc. burdour, 6–7 boorder, 7 boarder.
[ME. bourd(e)our, a. AFr. bourd(e)our, = OF. bordeor, f. border, bourder to bourd v.1]
A jester, a joker, a buffoon; a mocker.
1330R. Brunne Chron. 204 A knyght a bourdour kyng R. hade. c1375? Barbour St. Ninian 890 His menstrale..þat ves gud mane & gud burdoure. c1440Promp. Parv. 44 Bordyoure, or pleyare [1499 bordere], joculator. 1483Caxton G. de la Tour C i, He is but a bourdour and a deceyuer of ladyes. 1552Huloet, Bourder or rayler, whiche doth counterfayte those whome he mocketh. Bourder, or scoffer. 1606J. Davies 2nd Husb. for Overburie's Wife (1877) 12 Yet boord no Buffons that are boorders broad. [1801Strutt Sports & Past. iii. ii. 141 Strolling companies, composed of minstrels..bourdours or jesters, and other performers.] |