[coin] The liard was a subdivision of the kronenthaler, the currency of the Austrian Netherlands (modern Belgium). There were 216 liards to a kronenthaler. Following the French occupation of the Austrian Netherlands in 1794, the kronenthaler was replaced by the French franc. Today, in walloon dialects, des liards is still a synonym of `mone... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liard_(coin)
Li'ard (lī'ẽrd) adjective [ Old French liart , Late Latin liardus gray, dapple.] Gray. [ Obsolete] Chaucer. » Used by Chaucer as an epithet of a gray or dapple gray horse. Also used as a name for such a horse. Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/L/36