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† phairse, pheirs Sc. Obs.
Also phraisse, phrasse, frais.
[Variant forms of fairss, fairce = farce partly with metathesis of r.]
A farce, in earlier sense: = interlude 1.
a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 379 Great treumph and blythnes of phrassis and playis maid to hir at hir hame comming... Wpoun the eist syde thair was maid to her ane trieumphant frais [MSS. pheirs] to Schir Dawid Lyndsay of the Mont. Ibid. 381 Greit triumph, phraissis maid and playis wnto the queins grace. Ibid. II. 125 Singing playing dansing and pheirsis. |