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Gorsedd noun
- (in Wales) the bardic institution associated with the eisteddfod, esp a meeting of bards and druids held daily before the eisteddfod
Word Origin for Gorsedd from Welsh, literally: throne Collins English Dictionary – Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Examples from the Web for gorsedd Historical Examples of gorsedd
And from the top of the Gorsedd they looked and listened for the dogs.
Lady Charlotte Guest
And then he went to the Gorsedd of Narberth, taking the mouse with him.
Lady Charlotte Guest
Its chairing of the bards is an ancient ceremony; its gorsedd of bards is probably modern.
Owen M. Edwards
With the ceremony of the Gorsedd on the opening day Dafydd Dafis’s spellbound and uplifted hours began.
Oliver Onions
In Cathays Park there is also a “gorsedd” or bardic circle of huge monoliths erected in connexion with the eisteddfod of 1899.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3
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