Infare
//ˈɪnfɛə// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A party or other celebration held to mark someone's entrance into a new home, especially the arrival of a bride at her new home; a wedding reception. Scotland, US
"At our next meeting we set the day for our wedding; and I went to my father's, and made arrangements for an infair, and returned to ask her parents for her."
Example
More examples"At our next meeting we set the day for our wedding; and I went to my father's, and made arrangements for an infair, and returned to ask her parents for her."
Etymology
From Middle English infer (“entrance”), from Old English infær (“ingress, entrance, ingang”), from Proto-Germanic *in + *farą (“a going”), corresponding to in- + fare. Related to Old English infaru (“inroad, incursion, invasion”). Compare German einführen (“to introduce”).
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