Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A leopard or other large cat.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The leopard or panther.
- noun A partner; a mate; an accomplice; a boon companion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A leopard; a panther.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
leopard ; apanther . - noun colloquial
Chap ;fellow ; Used as a friendly appellation
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Swiftly turning on the Frenchman, Crockett—his handsome visage wrought into an irate scowl—said: “Are you calling my pard a liar, mon-sewer?”
Nevermore Harold Schechter 1999
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So Con went back to shake hands with "Snooks," who said very quietly: "I can't even say 'Thank you,' as I want to; I guess the best way to thank a pard is to live it, not speak it.
The Shagganappi 1913
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"Me an 'my pard was the first white men in these hyar hills," replied Slingerland.
The U. P. Trail Zane Grey 1905
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A noteworthy selection of canvases and collages gives proper credit to Picasso's "pard," Georges Braque, during the years when the two ambitious young painters, one short and irrevocably Spanish, the other tall and very French, were, in their phrase, "roped together like mountain climbers" to scale the heights of their new formal language.
The Cubist Circle Karen Wilkin 2010
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A noteworthy selection of canvases and collages gives proper credit to Picasso's "pard," Georges Braque, during the years when the two ambitious young painters, one short and irrevocably Spanish, the other tall and very French, were, in their phrase, "roped together like mountain climbers" to scale the heights of their new formal language.
The Cubist Circle Karen Wilkin 2010
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A noteworthy selection of canvases and collages gives proper credit to Picasso's "pard," Georges Braque, during the years when the two ambitious young painters, one short and irrevocably Spanish, the other tall and very French, were, in their phrase, "roped together like mountain climbers" to scale the heights of their new formal language.
The Cubist Circle Karen Wilkin 2010
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Jack, his one-time "pard," now grown beyond his ken.
Monarch, the Big Bear of Tallac Ernest Thompson Seton 1903
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W.S. P. [And here is the letter telling his "pard" that the article had been bought by _Everybody's Magazine_.
Rolling Stones O. Henry 1886
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Later found him and his pard trying to follow a blood trail.
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Later found him and his pard trying to follow a blood trail.
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