musard means A dreamer; an absent-minded person. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Why “musard” is a great word
MUSARD — [Noun] A dreamer or an absent-minded, idle person given to trifling or loitering. From Middle English musard, from Middle French musard, from muser ("to loiter, trifle, muse"). Unlike a dilettante, who dabbles with superficial intent, or a daydreamer, who voyages into pleasant fantasy, a musard is one adrift in a quiet, vacant preoccupation. He is the figure on the park bench staring at a crack in the pavement as if it were a universe, the shopper immobilized before a shelf of identical tins, the passenger carried past his station by the rhythm of the rails—a gentle casualty of time's indifferent passage.
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle English musard, from Middle French musard, from muser (“to loiter, trifle”). See muse (intransitive verb).
noun
- A dreamer; an absent-minded person.“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?)”