foy
Americannoun
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Chiefly Scot. a farewell gift, feast, or drink.
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faith.
Example Sentences
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The silver trays on foy er tables whitened with visiting cards and notes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Non par ma foy, Replies the Frenchman: nor you, Sir?
From All About Coffee by Ukers, William H. (William Harrison)
Me silly maid away with him he bare, And ever since hath kept in darksome cave, For that I would not yeeld, that to Sans foy I gave.
From Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Spenser, Edmund
Monsieur, par ma foy, am one have the grand knowledge in the skience of fiskick.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 by Hazlitt, William Carew
This foy, or fair, was to be kept on the thirty-first of October, embracing particularly the Hallowe’en 70 night so dear to the peasantry of Scotland.
From Christine A Fife Fisher Girl by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
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