feyre

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Etymology

From Old French foire, from Vulgar Latin *fēria, from the classical Latin plural noun fēriae.

Pronunciation

Noun

feyre (plural feyres)

  1. 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

  • English: fair
  • Yola: feyer, vaar

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