hagard

Corruption of highway guard; bike cops who typically rode large motorcycles.

hagard

1. (historical) a motorcycle cop
2. a big bike

For quotations using this term, see Citations:hagard.

Inherited from Old French hagart.

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /a.ɡaʁ/

• Audio (France (Somain)):

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hagard (feminine hagarde, masculine plural hagards, feminine plural hagardes)

1. haggard
   • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎^[1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères; republished as Eleanor Marx, transl., Madame Bovary, 1886:

     Elle fut saisie d'une appréhension, et, tout en cherchant quelque monnaie dans sa poche, elle considérait le paysan d'un œil hagard, tandis qu'il la regardait lui-même avec ébahissement, ne comprenant pas qu'un pareil cadeau pût tant émouvoir quelqu'un.

     She was seized with apprehension, and as she sought in her pocket for some coppers, she looked at the peasant with haggard eyes, while he himself looked at her with amazement, not understanding how such a present could so move any one.

• “hagard”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012