foeman
Americannoun
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foemen
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of foeman
before 1000; Middle English foman, Old English fāhman. See foe, man
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But to the newsmen and photographers scrambling to cover his world-girdling tour of the British Commonwealth, Prince Philip was a relentless foeman.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I am a Douglas, a Douglas!" sputtered stout-hearted Douglo, and rose to vanquish his foeman.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lately Pat Crowe has been going straight, the foeman of crime and drink.
From Time Magazine Archive
"His foeman will be stuffed with straw," Joff said as he rose.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
"That is not the Old Way. Have you forgotten? Ironmen fight with swords and axes, not by flinging rocks. There is no glory in starving out a foeman."
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
Back at headquarters it was discovered that the oldster was none other than the great Senussi chieftain Omar el Muktar, bravest and most implacable of Italy's native foemen.
From Time Magazine Archive
A small victory, Catelyn thought when the fighting had ended and the surviving foemen had melted back into the night, yet a victory nonetheless.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
And as nearer he hears the foemen ride, He seeks the utmost steep; And he plunges his spurs in his courser's side, And dares the dreadful leap!
From In the Saddle A Collection of Poems on Horseback-Riding by Various
III Their messengers, hard riding, came to King Gunther's land, As his far-distant foemen had given them in command; Then ask'd the crowd, what tidings the unknown guests might bring.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
No; Reason, as party-strife goes, As food is attractive to no men: And Logic's a nauseous dose, To be given—as physic—to foemen!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, December 2, 1893 by Various
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