foy
Americannoun
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Chiefly Scot. a farewell gift, feast, or drink.
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faith.
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The silver trays on foy er tables whitened with visiting cards and notes.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was a great foy at Allan's the night before I left Edinburgh.
From The House with the Green Shutters by George Douglas Brown
The knight asks if he knows who the lady is, “Par la foy que vous deuez o dieu,” fait le cheuallier estrange, “scauez vous bien qui la dame est que vous regardez?”
From Lancelot of the Laik A Scottish Metrical Romance by Walter W. (Walter William) Skeat
I was riding once," said he, "with Brady, titular Bishop of Ardagh, when he observed to me, 'Ma foy, Best, this huge overgrown bush is mightily in the way.
From Oliver Goldsmith A Biography by Washington Irving
Non par ma foy, Replies the Frenchman: nor you, Sir?
From All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers
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