Foy definition

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A farewell feast, drink, or gift, as at a wedding.
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A feast at the end of a harvest or fishing season.
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(obsolete, rare) Faith, allegiance.
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(obsolete) A feast given by one about to leave a place.
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A feast, present, etc. given by or to a person departing on a journey.
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Origin of foy

  • Dutch dialectal fooi from Middle Dutch foye journey from Old French voie from Latin via road wegh- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle French foy.

    From Wiktionary

Foy Sentence Examples

  • The book begins with a short avis (address to the reader), opening with the well-known words, "C'est icy un livre de bon foy, lecteur," and sketching in a few lively sentences the character of meditative egotism which is kept up throughout.

  • Dr Jackson in 1903 climbed to the ledge of the rock and was able to collate the lower part of the four large Persian columns; he thus convinced himself that Foy's conjecture of arstam (" righteousness") for Rawlinson's abistam or abastam was correct.

  • Pass the Foy Bridge, a suspension footbridge over the Wye, at which point the road turns away from the river.

  • Foy brilliantly turning his man and running in on goal from the angle shot with his left instep.

  • The French army proceeded to form up in an imposing array some 1300 yards from Wellington's position, and if some misgivings as to the result filled the minds of men like Soult, Reille and Foy, who had had previous experience of Wellington in the field, none at any rate dwelt in Napoleon's mind.

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