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English
Noun
foyson (plural foysons)
- Obsolete form of foison.
1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):...but Nature should bring forth / Of it own kind, all foyzon, all abundance / To feed my innocent people
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Middle English
Noun
foyson (plural foysons)
- foison
- Late 14th century: Fyve þousand folk it was as greet mervaille / Wiþ loves fyve and fisshes two to feede. / God sente his foyson at hir grete neede. — Geoffrey Chaucer, The Man of Law's Tale