noun
General Slang
chair
· noun · welsh
The Eisteddfod's top prize for a bardic poem in strict cynghanedd metre.
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The bardic chair awarded at the National Eisteddfod to the winning poet of the awdl — a long poem in the strict-metre form known as cynghanedd. A new chair is made specially each year by Welsh craftsmen. Winning it earns you the title Prifardd ('Chief Bard') and a very public ceremony on Friday of Eisteddfod week. The 1917 'Black Chair' — awarded posthumously to Hedd Wyn, killed at Passchendaele weeks earlier — remains the most famous.
“She won the chair at the National Eisteddfod in 2019 — only the third woman ever to do it.”
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chair In A Sentence
She won the chair at the National Eisteddfod in 2019 — only the third woman ever to do it.
Origin & Usage
From the eisteddfod tradition dating to the 1176 contest at Cardigan, where Lord Rhys awarded two chairs as prizes. The word eisteddfod itself comes from eistedd, 'to sit'.
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