Foy meaning

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A farewell feast, drink, or gift, as at a wedding.
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A feast, present, etc. given by or to a person departing on a journey.
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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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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.

  • Schaefer, Charles E., and Theresa Foy DiGeronimo.

  • Stone and Theresa Foy DiGeronimo: This book helps parents recognize the early signs of autism and how to seek a proper diagnosis.

  • 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.

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