musard

noun

1. A dreamer; an absent-minded person.

   literary

   How do the sciences go on in the midst of our political convulsions, and our financial distress? and the men of leaning, and the great talkers, and the collections, and the courses of lectures, and La Blancherie, and the museums, and the musards ( loungers?)

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Middle English musard, from Middle French musard, from muser (“to loiter, trifle”). See muse (intransitive verb).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry musard (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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