† vieillard Obs.
Also 5 viellars (pl.), veyllard, 6 villard, vylarde.
[a. F. vieillard (OF. also viellard, -art, villard, etc.), f. vieil old: see -ard.]
An old man.
| 1475 Bk. Noblesse (Roxb.) 64 That noble duke Agamemnon required of the goddis six suche wise viellars as was Nestor. 1485 Caxton Chas. Gt. 117 Of whens art thou, veyllard? ? a 1500 Chester Pl. i. 156 That oulde vylarde Jacobe, doted for age. c 1590 J. Stewart Poems (S.T.S.) II. 38 This vitius vieillard now mycht tak Of hir his plesour. 1621 T. Williamson (title), The Wise Vieillard or Old Man. Translated out of French into English. |