Rudyard

[ ruhd-yerd ]

noun

1. a male given name: from Germanic words meaning “red” and “guarded.”

Example Sentences

While the Dutch doctrine of “freedom of the seas” allowed the British navy to rule the waves, the earlier religious justification for domination was replaced by a racialist ideology that legitimized European efforts to conquer and colonize the half of humanity whom the imperialist poet Rudyard Kipling branded the “lesser breeds.”

From Salon

Previous winners include literary giants such as Rudyard Kipling, Toni Morrison and Ernest Hemingway.

From BBC

I was in bed under the covers with a torch reading Rudyard Kipling’s “Just So Stories.”

From New York Times

“However the world pretends to divide itself,” declared the English writer Rudyard Kipling, “there are only two divisions in the world today—human beings and Germans.”

From Literature

“Do you know that poem, ‘If’ by Rudyard Kipling?” she asks.

From Los Angeles Times