: to furnish (a horse's neck, breast, or flank) with a piece of armor or ornament : to furnish with bards (see bardentry 2)
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[borrowed from French barder, verbal derivative of barde "strip of fat to cover meat," figurative use of barde "piece of armor for a horse, packsaddle"]: to dress meat for cooking by covering with strips of fat
borrowed from Middle French barde, going back to Old French, "packsaddle, saddle cover," borrowed from Arabic bardʽa (or borrowed from Italian barda in sense "piece of armor for a horse," borrowed from Arabic)