foy
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Definition of foy
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(countable, obsolete, rare, uncountable)Faith, allegiance.
“He Easterland subdewd, and Danmarke wonne, / And of them both did foy and tribute raise, / The which was dew in his dead fathers dayes […]”
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noun
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(countable, obsolete, rare, uncountable)Faith, allegiance.
“He Easterland subdewd, and Danmarke wonne, / And of them both did foy and tribute raise, / The which was dew in his dead fathers dayes […]”
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(countable, obsolete, uncountable)A feast given by one about to leave a place.
“To Westminster Hall in the morning with Captain Lambert, and there he did at the Dog give me and some other friends of his, his foy, he being to set sail to-day towards the Streights.”
name
- A surname.
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(obsolete)Synonym of Sainte-Foy, various places, especially Sainte-Foy-la-Grande.
“FOY, or St Foy, a town in Guienne, in France, thirty-two miles eaſt of Bourdeaux; it is ſituated under the meridian of London, in 44°, 50′, N. lat.”
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Etymology
From Middle French foy.
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