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† ˈcolward, a. Obs. [app. a perverted form of culvert, in OF. culvert, colvert, etc.] Villainous, nefarious, perfidious, infamous.c 1325 E.E. Allit. P. B. 181 For couetyse, & colwarde & croked dedez. c 1330 Florice & Bl. (1857) 339 The porter is coluard [Camb. MS. culuert] & feloun.
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▪ I. † ˈculvert, a. Obs. Also 4 culvart, -vard; and see colward. [a. OF. culvert, colvert, late L. collībertus fellow-freedman, in Middle Ages a serf, villain, one whose condition was intermediate between slavery and freedom, but nearer the former; hence, adj. abject, wretched, villainous, vile, inf...
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