[1400–50; late ME ‹ MF, OF: n. deriv. of farder to apply makeup, prob. ‹ Old Low Franconian *farwiđon to dye, color (cf. OHG farwjan, G färben)]This word is first recorded in the period 1400–50. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: gallery, oblique, peg, transit, union