feyre

Middle English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈfɛi̯r(ə)/

Noun

feyre (plural feyres)

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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for feyre in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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