fardel
Americannoun
noun
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; -elle
Example Sentences
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To mark if e'er I knew him? and to crave His pity for the fardel that I bear.
From The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Purgatory, Volume 3 by Cary, Henry Francis
Your baby-days flow'd in a much-troubled channel; I see you, as then, in your impotent strife, A tight little bundle of wailing and flannel, Perplex'd with the newly-found fardel of Life.
From The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 by Ontario. Ministry of Education
Time, so far, had brought with him only a complication of troubles, more tangled than his usual fardel.
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis
I observed one bringing in a fardel very carefully concealed under an old embroidered cloak, which, upon his throwing it into the heap, I discovered to be poverty.
From The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant by Moore, John Hamilton
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 Brown, Goold
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