feyre

Middle English

Alternative forms

• faire, fare

Etymology

From Old French foire, from Vulgar Latin *fēria, from the classical Latin plural noun fēriae.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfæi̯r(ə)/

Noun

feyre (plural feyres)

1. A fair or market.
   • c. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Wife of Bath's Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales:

     I governed hem so wel after my lawe
     That eche of hem ful blisful was and fawe
     To bringen me gay thinges fro the feyre

     I governed them so well by my rules
     That each was blissful and happy
     To bring me gay things from the fair

Descendants

• English: fair
• Yola: feyer, vaar

References

• “feire, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “feyre”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.