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▪ I. infare, n.|ˈɪnfɛə(r)|
Forms: 1 infær, innfær, 1–2 infer, 2 infar, 4, 9 infair, 7– infare, (9 infar).
[OE. innfær, f. inn, in adv. 11 d + fær going, journey, expedition, fare n.1, f. faran to go.]
†1. (OE. and early ME.)
a. The act of going in; entrance.
b. An entrance, entry, way in. Obs.
a1000Ags. Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 230/15 Ex aditis, ex ingressibus, of inferum. c1000ælfric Gen. iii. 24 Þa ᵹesette God æt þam infære engla hyrdrædene and fyren swurd. ― Hom. I. 178 He ᵹewite fram urum heortum mid þam innfære ᵹehæft, mid þam þe he inn-afaren wæs and us ᵹehæfte. a1175Cott. Hom. 231 He haueð ȝerimed rihtwisan mannan infer to his rice.
2. a. Sc., north. dial., and U.S. A feast or entertainment given on entering a new house; esp. at the reception of a bride in her new home. Also transf.
1375Barbour Bruce xvi. 340 For he thoucht for till mak Infair, And till mak gud cher till his men. a1670Spalding Troub. Chas. I (1792) II. 54 Upon the 25th of October he brought over his wife to his own house in the Oldtown, where there was a goodly infare. 1744J. MacSparran Diary (1899) 18 Dr. Hazard and Betty Gardiner went to..Billy Hazard's weding. They are both gone again..to the Infair. 1794in Amer. Pioneer II. 223 An Infair was given to-day by Mason, to a fellow named Kuykendall, who had..run off with Mason's daughter..a few weeks ago. 1801J. Baillie in A. Whitelaw Bk. Scot. Song 73/1 At bridal and infare I've braced me wi pride. 1818Edin. Mag. Nov. 414 The day after the wedding is the infare..the company is less numerous, and the dinner is commonly the scraps that were left at the wedding-feast. 1847Porter Big Bear, etc. 162 (Farmer), I hurried home to put up..some turkies to fatten for the infare. 1872Schele de Vere Americanisms 236 The minister is said to settle,..a ceremony which..in many churches is made the occasion of much ceremony, called an installation or infare, because resembling an old-fashioned wedding festival. 1887Harper's Mag. Apr. 730/1 The wedding and the infair were attended..by Wiley.
b. Comb. infare-cake, a cake of shortbread broken over the bride's head on crossing the threshold of her new home.
1884C. Rogers Soc. Life Scotl. I. iii. 118 The custom of the infar-cake had its origin in the rite of Confarreation whereby the Romans constituted matrimony.
▪ II. † inˈfare, v. Obs.
[OE. inn-, infaran, f. inn, in adv. + faran to go: cf. OFris. in-fara, Du. invaren, Ger. einfahren (with separable pref.: see in-1). Orig. two words, and so usually written.]
intr. To go in, to enter.
c1000Ags. Gosp. John iii. 5 Ne mæᵹ he in faran on godes rice. c1000ælfric Saints' Lives (E.E.T.S.) x. 27 Þæt he ælmessan under-fencge æt þam infarendum [v.r. inn farendum]. a1400Sir Perc. 1538 The portere was redy thare, Lete the knyghtis in fare. |