Covered with barde or armor plating, especially when referring to a horse equipped with protective or decorative metal coverings.
Past participle of the verb 'barde,' meaning to put armor on a horse. Derives from the noun barde through the addition of the -ed suffix indicating a completed action or state.
A fully barded medieval warhorse was basically a tank—both animal and armor could weigh 2,500+ pounds combined, making charge formations devastatingly heavy but also slow and vulnerable to lighter cavalry tactics!
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