† 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.
| 1330 R. Brunne Chron. 204 A knyght a bourdour kyng R. hade. c 1375 ? Barbour St. Ninian 890 His menstrale..þat ves gud mane & gud burdoure. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 44 Bordyoure, or pleyare [1499 bordere], joculator. 1483 Caxton G. de la Tour C i, He is but a bourdour and a deceyuer of ladyes. 1552 Huloet, Bourder or rayler, whiche doth counterfayte those whome he mocketh. Bourder, or scoffer. 1606 J. Davies 2nd Husb. for Overburie's Wife (1877) 12 Yet boord no Buffons that are boorders broad. [1801 Strutt Sports & Past. iii. ii. 141 Strolling companies, composed of minstrels..bourdours or jesters, and other performers.] |