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
Robinet or Robert Macé, Rouen, proclaims “Ung dieu, 14 ung roy, ung foy, ung loy,” and the same idea expressed in identical words is not uncommonly met with in Printers’ Marks.
From Printers' Marks A Chapter in the History of Typography by Roberts, W. (William)
One of the servants at the place was leaving, and what was termed a "foy" was being held that night.
From Cattle and Cattle-breeders by M'Combie, William
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
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
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