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Middle English
Etymology
From Old French foire, from Vulgar Latin *fēria, from the classical Latin plural noun fēriae.
Pronunciation
Noun
feyre (plural feyres)
- A fair or market.
c. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Wife of Bath's Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales:I governed hem so wel after my lawe
That eche of hem ful blisful was and fawe
To bringen me gay thinges fro the feyre- I governed them so well by my rules
That each was blissful and happy
To bring me gay things from the fair
Descendants
References
- “feire, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- “feyre”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.