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▪ I. fent, n.|fɛnt|
Also 5 vent, 5–7 fente, 7 fenth.
[ad. Fr. fente, f. fendre:—L. findĕre to split.]
1. A short slit or opening in a robe, esp. the opening at the throat, usually closed by a brooch, trimmed with fur, etc. Also a placket or placket-hole. Now chiefly dial.
c1430Syr Gener. (Roxb.) 5941 The stroke vndre the fent, Queyntly al a-side it went. c1440Promp. Parv. 156 Fente of a clothe, fibulatorium. c1450Henryson Mor. Fab. 55 Flours fair furred on euerie fent. 1459Wardrobe Sir T. Fastolf in Archæologia XXI. 253, i jakket of red felwet, the ventis bounde with red lether. a1500Assembly of Ladies, The coller and the vent..With greate perles..were couched al after one worching. 1502Privy Purse Exp. Eliz. of York (1830) 69 Item for a nayle of sarcenet for fentes for the same gowne iiijd. 1530Palsgr. 219/2 Fent of a gowne, fente. 1611Cotgr., La fente d'une chemise, the fent of a shirt. 1652Urquhart Jewel Wks. (1834) 241 A cloth of gold petticoat, in the anterior fente whereof was an asteristick ouch. 1814Law Case (Jam.), He put his hand..into the fent of her petticoat.
2.
†a. A crack in the skin (obs.);
b. (see quot. 1776);
c. an opening or rift in the ground.
1597Lowe Chirurg. (1634) 188 Clifts or Fenths in the Eares or Nose. 1776Da Costa Conch. 243 The fent (Rima) is the opening of the Shells on the Slopes. 1878M. E. Herbert tr. Hübner's Ramble ii. ii. 244 A ravine, or rather a deep fent in the soil.
3. dial. The binding of any part of the dress.
1847in Halliwell. 1877N.W. Linc. Gloss., Fent, the binding of a woman's dress.
4. A remnant (of cloth).
1844S. Bamford Pass. Life Radical ix. 60 Her outer garments were of very homely material, being seemingly cotton fents dyed blue. 1855Robinson Whitby Gloss., Fents..remnants of cloth in varieties. 1860O'Neill Chem. Calico-Printing 312 If a fent mordanted for black and purple be dipped in hot caustic soda, it will [etc.]. 1865B. Brierley Irkdale I. 156 A couple of fents of his own weaving.
5. attrib., (sense 4) as fent-dealer, fent-merchant.
1884Manch. Exam. 18 Sept. 5/3 Mr. M...started in business as a fent and general merchant. 1892Simmonds Trade Dict. Sup., Fent-Dealer, a piece broker, a retailer of remnants of cloth.
▪ II. † fent, v. Obs. rare—1.
[f. prec. n.]
trans. ? To make slits in.
1589Nottingham Rec. IV. 277 For fentinge tenne moryons ijs. iijd.
▪ III. fent, -ly
obs. and dial. ff. faint n., faintly. |