fardel
Americannoun
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fardels
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of fardel
First recorded in 1375–1425; late Middle English, from Anglo-French, Old French, from Old Provençal, equivalent to fard(a) “bundle” (ultimately derived from Arabic fardah “load”) + -el, from Latin -ellus; see -elle
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I find I want you to take up the fardel of public life; not to be a pessimistic complainer, standing aside with your hands in your pockets, but a citizen.
From The Day of His Youth by Alice Brown
Such are bordel, chapel, duel, fardel, gabel, gospel, gravel, lamel, label, libel, marvel, model, novel, parcel, quarrel, and spinel.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
To torment myself with the detail of the noisome contents of the fardel will but make it stick the closer, first to my imagination and then to my unwilling will.
From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Henry Nelson Coleridge
After venting that brief soliloquy he sat silent a little while, till Leonard was nearly out of sight, then rose, resumed his fardel, and, creeping quick along the hedgerows, followed Leonard toward the town.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 by Various
I'm sore bestead, Priscilla—I have a quarrel with Myles Standish, and 't is as big a fardel as my shoulders will bear.
From Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims by Jane G. (Jane Goodwin) Austin
And then there it was, in “To be, or not to be”: “Who would fardels bear, to grunt and sweat under a weary life?”
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 23, 2016
To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin/ That makes calamity of so long life;/ For who would fardels bear, till Birnam Wood do come to Dunsinane .
From Time Magazine Archive
In his "To be or not to be" soliloquy, Hamlet asks himself why he should bear fardels.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus, in a Hamlet for 1984, "Who would fardels bear?" becomes "Who would burdens bear?"
From Time Magazine Archive
And the Emperor received “two fardels of cinnamon.”
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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