Real Dictionary

goliard in American English
any of a class of wandering students of the late Middle Ages who wrote satirical Latin verse and often served as minstrels and jesters
noun: one of a class of wandering scholar-poets in Germany, France, and England, chiefly in the 12th and 13th centuries, noted as the authors of satirical Latin verse written in celebration of conviviality, sensual pleasures, etc

goliard in British English
noun: one of a number of wandering scholars in 12th- and 13th-century Europe famed for their riotous behaviour, intemperance, and composition of satirical and ribald Latin verse